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From the Recruitment Policies Section on the public side of the AOII website:


Legacy Recruitment

AOII strongly encourages the pledging of qualified legacies. Every known legacy shall be given special consideration in membership selection.

During formal rush, and throughout the chapter's Continuous Open Recruitment, every verified legacy shall be offered a bid to membership unless the chapter has a reason for denying a bid and communicates that reason to the alumna involved or the chapter's Collegiate Network Specialist.

If the formal rush schedule includes several invitational party rounds before Preference (the final invitational party) the legacy shall be invited to all invitational parties before Preference UNLESS the chapter has determined that the legacy is definitely not a rushee to be pledged and that decision has been approved by the appropriate adviser. In no case should a legacy be denied an invitation to at least one invitational party after the open house, tours, or ice water party round. At any point during Recruitment when the chapter and the adviser concur that a legacy be dropped from consideration for pledging, the adviser MUST communicate by telephone with the AOII relative prior to the distribution of invitations for the next set of parties. If the concern of the chapter is that the legacy has expressed strong interest in another sorority and lesser interest in AOII, recruitmenting efforts should be increased.

Every legacy who accepts an invitation to the chapter's final party (Preference) must be named on the chapter's QUOTA LIST (also known as first bid list).

If no contact is possible between a designated adviser and the AOII relative of a legacy not extended a bid to membership, notice that the legacy has been dropped without contact must be sent to the chapter's Collegiate Network Specialist and to International Headquarters within one week after the date the rushee is dropped, in no case later than one week after formal rush.

This policy defines a legacy as a sister, daughter, or granddaughter or, through marriage [read step], the sister, daughter or granddaughter of an initiated member of Alpha Omicron Pi.