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Originally Posted by hollywin
I am so happy that you are a proud legacy mom..congrats. I guess in my situation I have to know what legacy defines. A pnm whose mom, sister ,or aunt is a legacy ?? This is what I have known to be true. So what about a pnm whose mom and her 2 sisters were legacies to the UGA chapter and all of which were officers in XYZ chapter. Is it fair to take the pnm and spend only 40 minutes to decide ? This being from rounds 1 & 2. While I know there were many legacies I wonder how many went through with that statistic. While this pnm had many recs at other houses, do you not think that they looked at the 4x legacy and decided to cut because they assumed she would choose that house. 1300 girls,they had to make cuts where they could. I think in my daughters situation her families commitment to greek life actually hurt her in the long run.
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What is a legacy is dependent upon the sorority. For Delta Gamma, a woman can be a leg through her mother, grandmother, or sister (as well as step-relations in these categories). Some other sororities, however, may consider aunts and cousins in their legacy definition. Your group's policy should be on your national website.
In answer to your question, it's not fair for a house to only take 40 minutes to decide on a girl. But some houses at UGA have several times quota in legacies coming through, and they have to make legacy cuts at that point. I know of a young lady who was a legacy several times over to a competitive chapter on campus, and she was cut after round two when she rushed... so your daughter is not the first. It's sad, but I don't think it is by any means rare.
I think you are right that some chapters might have chosen to cut your daughter because of her multiple legacies to your house, especially if it was an established, competitive house on campus (and I gather from some of what you've posted that it is). Of course, none of us were there for MS at any of the houses to be sure, but it makes sense that some houses would think "Why bother if she's going to end up an XYZ anyway?" when they saw how many XYZ members are in her family. Again, it's not fair, but often when groups have to make cuts, they need to cut girls they feel have a strong chance of going elsewhere, whether 8 million of their friends are ABCs or they have a family line going back to the early 1900s in XYZ.