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Originally posted by kddani
I read your post, and I see absolutely nothing that could be taken as "unfair" treatment.
*They're not donating any money? That's petty of them, and once again, their own personal problem. There's NEVER a guarantee, in any organization at any campus of getting in a certain house. If they had been lied to or deceived somehow, yes they would have a right to be very upset. But they weren't.
* Their alumnae chapters? It's not the alumnae chapter's business. What goes on in membership selection and the reasons women got cut are ritual and private, even to other members.
*The house being one of the "top 4" on campus. That means many other girls wanted them. In many cases, houses have more legacies going through rush than they have bids to give. Someone has to get cut.
This sounds like a very ridiculous situation that the family should have seen coming.
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Well I just wanted to see what your experiences in this category have been.
It is common practice around here at least (Deep South) for alumni chapters to pretty much "organize" the recs for a legacy. Down here it is "big business" for girls to follow their mothers/grandmothers/sisters/whatever into a sorority, and the Alumni Chapters felt they had been given a slap in the face when they did not get any letter/phone call from the Recruitment Chair at this sorority (apparently this is standard procedure...I don't know the workings of contacting recs or whatever, I'm just a member whose never held a Recruitment Higher-Up Position) telling them that they had cut their PNM.
The girl's mother said she had "given up on her college chapter" because of this incident and some other incidents (just general behavior of their girls or something, I am not really sure) and had decided to quit donating as much.
I guess I don't know how they DO go about it, but how does your chapter cut a legacy? Do they call their legacy-person (I forgot the name--you know, the mom/grandmother/sister/aunt/etc) and tell them? Send a note?
-sorority belle