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Originally Posted by 33girl
J, that's the one I thought it was too but then I read it and it wasn't. The one I was thinking of had one of the ADPis commenting on it. Honeychile might remember.
The problems about this concept are so many, though. Who gets the nod between 1) daughter of mom who worked with the chapter and volunteered nationally for 30 years or 2) daughter of Monica Millionaire who never did anything as far as volunteering since she was busy with her work, but who donated $750,000 to the chapter to build a new house. Or what about the rushee whose mom hasn't done any volunteering because mom died when rushee was 6 years old.
With carnation's scenario above - again, back to college choice. Mom knows it's harder to get into Harvard than it is Booboo State. Why on earth would she believe that a school that differs from hers in so many aspects (not to mention the addition of 25-30 years) would have the same sort of rush?
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Without getting into any specifics about membership selection and just speaking theoretically, this already goes on at many chapters of large inter/national groups at super competitive schools. Let's face it. All legacies are not created equal. I think at this point in time it is still pretty easy to determine which legacies are "more equal." Mom, nanna, whoever is either involved or not, whether than involvement is with the chapter, alumnae group, financial, a combination of those or whatever. (Laura Legacy's mom hasn't paid dues since 1972 versus Lana Legacy's mom who served as president of her local ac for 10 years, still helps with recruitment at her local chapter and donated to the fund to rennovate that house.) I think if things continue to go on the same trajectory, eventually groups are going to have to come up with their own standardized objective way of evaluating a legacy's "value."