Hi everyone! First of all, I’d like to say thank you for all the ladies who reply with helpful information!
My question is how I should go about asking for rec’s when I have never met the alum. I know friends’ moms or cousins or close friends who are alums of a sorority but I have never met them before. Should I ask my friends to ask their relative first for permission and then receive their information and ask them? Or should I go ahead and ask the relative? When I do ask the relative for a rec, should I ask them out to lunch/coffee to get to know them (and they get to know me too) in person?
Also, I don’t have recs to all of the sororities on my campus so I would like to contact an alum association to see if any alums would be willing. I live in in central IL and I go to school at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign so the closest alum association would be in Chicago. Should I contact the association first asking if I could attend a meeting and meet some alums so I could ask them afterwards if they would be willing to write a rec for me? Should I ask the ones I get to know out to lunch/coffee one-on-one before they write a rec for me? Or should I just contact the association to see if they could put me in touch with alums who would be willing to write a rec for me?
My last question is about the social resume. I understand from research it’s supposed to look like this for incoming freshmen (
http://www.austinpanhellenic.org/joi...ty-resume.html). I am a sophomore planning to rush so should I include high school information along with my freshmen year information? Is the social resume only supposed to be one page? I was pretty active my freshmen year and this summer so would it be ok if I included my work resume and social resume? My work resume is also more in-depth about the organizations I was a leader in.
Sorry for the wall of text. Thank you once again greekchat members!