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Originally Posted by Thetagirl218
When I went through recruitment, I was never asked anything about having letters of rec, just if I had other family members in GLOs.
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It's not really something people
ask about in competitive recruitments, more just a check mark in a box on a checklist. It's not discussed during recruitment functions. If they have one, they have one; if they don't, they don't.
Look at it this way (this is how the importance of recs was explained to me): If you were interviewing for a job with 1200-1400 other people, there would be certain things that it would be easy to narrow down the group with; for example, if you cut out everyone who didn't have a bachelor's degree or master's degree, that would narrow the field and make it easier to make choices from a smaller group of candidates. Recs help narrow the field. It doesn't necessarily mean that people without recs never have chances, because a rec can always be found for a girl if she's really awesome and don't have one... but at the big schools (Bama, Ole Miss, etc.) going in without recs usually means early cuts.