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Originally Posted by deadbear80

In some organizations, undergrad members can write recs. Your chapter may have secured a rec for you through someone you already knew in the chapter without your knowledge of her doing so.
I also know that some chapters will contact Alumnae Panhellenic chapters when the list of registered girls comes out (especially when recruitment is deferred) to try to get recs that way. So you just never know...

Originally Posted by SoCalGirl

I've written recs for NMs after meeting them. They had no idea.

Originally Posted by Zillini

We have the same policy. When we have a new member that doesn't have a rec we look for an alum in her hometown/area who would be willing to write one. If that isn't possible then one of our advisors will make a point of spending time with the NM and then write her rec. Honestly I doubt the NM knows any of this. It might embarrass her to find out that she was the only one in her whole NM class who didn't have a rec.

Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna

Delta Gamma's Executive Offices keeps a little form on each pledge/new member. I've seen mine, and it listed my sponsor (and I wrote a note to thank her!). Maybe Sigma Kappa has a similar arrangement.

I guess everyone in my chapter is illegitimately initiated. I asked the Advisory Board Chair and the New Member Educator and they both say we don't do recs even though it is our National policy to have one.