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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
I have actually advised girls going through recruitment at very competitive schools to NOT list their legacy chapter(s) on the panhellenic form - just have the family members send a legacy notification form to the chapter/write a rec. I hate to say it, but I've known too many cases where being a known legacy to another house may have hurt a pnm's chances - of course, we'll never know for sure, but there just doesn't seem to be much of a reason to let other houses know you are a legacy to another house.
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I agree. I think we may be overestimating the effect of being a legacy at other chapters because there's no way of really knowing why a girl was released and the increasing number of legacies might make bad outcomes seem more common.
But other than communicating that you would really understand the commitment of being greek, it's hard to see how it benefits the PNM at all to list it.
Perhaps we all should push to have panhellenic drop the question from their recruitment forms.
SWTXBelle, can you bring yourself to leave the information off your RIFs or recs when you know a girl is a legacy to another group? I have a hard time with this. It's one thing to encourage a girl to omit information that no group particularly needs, but knowingly withholding it from my own group is much harder. It's specifically requested by our form.