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On the one hand, it's evil to tell PNMs they don't need recs when they actually do. We should tell the truth in those rush booklets.
On the other hand, there is just no way to select members from hundreds of PNMs in one week if you don't use recs. Been there, done that at 3 SEC schools and if you haven't been involved with recruitment at a big Greek school, don't tell me how it should be run.
Let's say you don't have any members from Mobile but you do have 25 PNMs from there. Thank God, you also have recs from your alums there on all or most of those girls because otherwise, how on earth would you choose? The alums often know, for instance, which of those girls are most likely to stick with Greek life and who would bail out in case of problems....based on past experience. They know who the hard workers were in high school and who the lazy ones were.
No-recs are also very valuable. I have only used them twice...once for a very strange girl I worked with in Scouting, the other for a girl my oldest and I worked with. (My daughter gave her a no-rec too and although the girl didn't get into either of our sororities, she tore apart the one she pledged and was luckily kicked out before initiation.)
I wouldn't presume to judge the way Greek life is run outside of the South and I'd expect the same courtesy from people outside of the South.
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