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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
After reading all the posts about it, I have basically decided that my daughters will NOT list their legacy sororities on the general registration form- those sororities will be notified, and the others really don't need the information.
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I totally agree. When I have kids and if I am lucky enough to have a legacy, she will not be listing it on the general recruitment form. I will send information to ADPi (if there is a chapter at the school she is going too). I don't want her legacy status to impede her into not having a wonderful recruitment. Of course I would want her to go ADPi, but if she doesn't feel at home with them, I would just want her to find her home. That is what is important.
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Originally Posted by AlphaGamUGAAlum
I don't think free legacies would be a particularly good policy, but why do you think it would make the cutting of other groups legacies worse?
(If your group wants her, they want her whether or not she's a legacy elsewhere; if they don't want her, what difference will it make to them that she can be "free" someplace else? I'm not trying to be a smarty pants; I'm just missing something. Are you thinking that all other groups would assume that she'll go the legacy chapter whether they really are her first choice or not?)
Personally, a GLO could have a form letter that included data from the high number of legacy chapter and the legacy policy that those chapters could send back to whoever sent the legacy form as soon as they received it. It could basically say in raw form:
We're delighted to learn of your legacy coming through recruitment, and we look forward to meeting her. We have not yet begun to evaluate potential new members, but we wanted to give you a clear understanding of the challenge that our chapter faces regarding legacies.
We understand the unique role they can play in the overall richness of life as an XYZ, but in the last few years, we've had 83, 102, and 78 legacies participate in recruitment while quota has been around 50. We will follow the XYZ legacy policy throughout our recruitment, but we wanted all members with legacies to be aware that it will be impossible for all of them to be placed in our new member class. Please encourage your legacy to keep an open mind about recruitment at our university; we have many excellent chapters for your legacy to join in should she not find a home in XYZ.
And a similar letter could be from campuses which have to cut a significant number of legacies a year.
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Excellent!!!!!