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Originally Posted by Zeta_heart

This subject has really touched my heart this recruitment. My real life little sister was going though recruitment. Having been a panhellenic recruitment chair, I advised her just as I would any other PNM. To keep her options open, to find her perfect fit, that just because I belonged to one GLO didn't mean she had to as well. However, as she went through recruitment she fell in love with the same organization I did. I couldn't blame her, they capture me too. I still encouraged her to keep looking at other places, but her heart was set.

I had helped her secure several recs from well established alums, some who serve as nationals officers. My sister knew how much I care about this organization, and as a current chapter president, she has seen my hardwork and the passion I put into it. To say my heart was broken when she was dropped before preference was an understatement. For something I love and work so hard for, to cut the person who means the most to me in the world is devestaing.

It is easy to say that, you have to look for the right fit, and that every chapter is different. But to watch my little sister cry her eyes out was the most heartbreaking thing in the world. I think we really need to take a look at the legacy women we are turning away. We are losing way too many women that could contribute to our organizations. I know my sister for one would have, without a doubt, been a loyal and comitted member, who continued to give back after graduation.

Being a Legacy is such an important thing, were all our organizations not found on the idea of sisterhood, of tradition, of empowering women? I hope in the future things will change, and young women on various campuses will see the value of legacy members, too many are turned away because of some unwritten bias.

Sorry for being so long, but this has topic has really recently touched my heart.

I really don't think that's it at all. At a lot of campus it's simply a number thing. If quota is 50 and there are 75 legacies to XYZ they can't take all of them. And even then what about new members, who are not legacies.