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I know (from helping out as an alum this year) that the sororities on my campus were only given information as to who was a legacy to their particular sorority and not any of the others on campus. I personally think it's a good rule so that each sorority can really focus on their legacies (and the other rushees for that matter!) without worrying whether a girl was going to go to their chapter or XYZ if she's a legacy there.
When I was in school, we got information about each girl's legacy status (regardless of whether it was our sorority or not). I do remember some girls in particular who were legacies to 2 chapters on campus and people saying "well, her sister is an XYZ, but she's a legacy to us through her Mom and Grandma, so we should try to *steal* her from them". Um, it's not about 'stealing' it's about getting the girls you want to come back!
Obviously, it's hard for a girl who is an in-house legacy to go through recruitment undetected when her sister is still an active...but I guess that can't be helped. I know that this year, there was a girl who went through recruitment at my school whose sister was still in school. She did not join her sister's chapter (and didn't seem to be affected by the other chapters knowing who her sister was). I also know of another girl who was in-house to 2 separate chapters on campus (since she had 2 older sisters who each joined different houses)--and she joined a completely different house (there are only 6 on campus). So it obviously doesn't seem to affect things too much on my campus. I'm sure there are questions about whether a girl will return if she's an in-house legacy--but no chapter should presume that since a girl is in-house that she'll go to her in-house legacy chapter. That holds true ESPECIALLY when the rushee's older sister/Mom/Grandmother/whoever is no longer in the chapter. As we all know, chapters change over time.
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