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Originally Posted by futuregreekhope

Alright so I'm a little confused about how recs work. Is it possible to get recs if you have no sorority affiliation at all? In other words do sorority women at your alumni local chapter mind writing a rec for you even if they dont personally know you? If so what steps are to be taken to do this?
And also, I'm looking at Arizona State and I would like to know how competitive is the recruitment there and how vital are recs? Ive read the sticky thread about which schools you absolutely need recs for and ASU was in the up for debate list and i was wondering if it would hurt not to have them there.
And the final question I have is compared to an SEC school how much less stress would be involved at an ASU recruitment and is there a large amount of bidless PNM at either an SEC school or ASU?

Thank you so much in advance and I apologize if I sound like a novice or a dunce or if these are difficult to answer. Thanks

Helpful ASU threads:

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...=Arizona+State

http://www.greekchat.com/gcforums/sh...=Arizona+State

As far as competitiveness, it's not a Bama by any means but it's also not without some level of competitiveness.

In terms of bidlessness, when you look at numbers of people who don't bids, that also includes people who CHOOSE to drop out of recruitment. So don't let the numbers scare you too much (if you're looking at percentages.)

Sorority recruitment is such that it's set up to place the majority of women who attend Preference parties and rank all chapters they attend. So really, if you are open minded, make it to Pref round, and list the ones you attended, you stand a very good chance at receiving a bid. It may not be your #1 choice, but it's very unusual for girls who make it to the end to end up TOTALLY bidless.

With that said, you do need to prepare yourself well and give yourself the best posible chance to make it to that point. Have good grades, recs, meet people in sororities (yes, it can help you in recruitment if sorority women kow and like you), etc. As far as stressfulness, I think ALL formal recruitments (even at schools with like 2 chapters) are somewhat stressful just because you are trying to make a good impression everywhere you go, then you wonder if the chapters like you, and you look at other PNMs and wonder if a chapter will like them more, etc.