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Originally Posted by Low C Sharp
Here's a hypothetical. Suppose that quota at SEC U is 75, and XYZ, an old, established group, has 80 legacy PNMs. Say that 10 of them genuinely don't meet the XYZ standard, and maybe 5, though qualified, can be expected to choose a different group at prefs. If XYZ keeps all the remaining legacies, that would be 65/75 in its pledge class. We often hear "We can't take them all" or "The whole class would be legacies!"
I don't have a dog in the race, I'm just curious: why not have a class of mostly legacies, if they are qualified? Is it a sense that this would impair the diversity of the class? Are chapters worried about being perceived as exclusive and unfair (would that really be a bad thing at SEC U?)?
Same question, part 2: what if XYZ is a low-to-middle group at SEC U? Then does it make sense to take a mostly-legacy class?
LOL! Sorry, I just thought that was hilarious.
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It's not that it's bad to have a pledge class of legacies, it's just that having only legacies probably leaves the actives with little say about who's in their chapter. There could have been 20 other girls at SEC U who would have been 'better fits' for the chapter. And
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Originally Posted by dgdramadawg
She ended up really happy in the house she ended up pledging, but her mom was LIVID, and when she talked to her house they said that the PNM must have "slipped through the cracks." How a descendant of a founder could slip through the cracks is beyond me. Rest assured the same did not happen to this girl's younger siblings, though!
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Code for "stay out of our membership selection, non-active chapter member."