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Originally Posted by bejazd
. . . In any case, I have another question (and my reason for reading this thread.) I know a young woman who recently and unexpectedly moved to TX with her family due to a job change. She's now deciding which school among several to attend. Since I know her personally, I'll write her a reference for GPB, but she'll need some help getting recs for other groups. If she sends her info to her area Alum Panhel, and they farm out her info to other groups. will it hurt her that those references will be pretty much "info only" recs? I'd feel really bad if I told her to send her info, and somebody else gave her a reference with a low score just because she doesn't know anyone. Would she be better off just to submit her application to her college panhellnic and just go for it on her own?
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By "recently and unexpectedly" do you mean within the last year / year and a half / two years? (I'm guessing that you do.)
What do the TX alumnae and actives on GC suggest? I'm wondering if you could suggest to the young woman that she try contacting family friends, former teachers, church / synagogue members from her previous home town to get recs? They'd be able, I hope, to write them from a know-her-personally perspective. At the same time it probably wouldn't hurt to go through her Area Alum Panhellenic, too. After all, it's very possible that the local alumnae associations could contact alums in her previous home town to get a comfortable amount of info for a decent rec.
I kind of get the impression that at some schools and/or chapters in TX she'd be better off with even an info-only rec than none at all.