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Originally posted by exlurker
Purdue Panhellenic's set of FAQs for this fall's formal recruitment is in PDF (Adobe Acrobat needed) at:
http://www.purdue.edu/greek/reports/...itment_faq.pdf
As to recommendations, the FAQ page says they are not required by Panhellenic but some sororities use them.
Actually, of course, some sororities (not all) have national policies stating that a woman must be "sponsored" (or some other word indicating a recommendation of some kind). In theory if a sorority chapter is really interested in someone, it will manage to get a recommendation or "sponsor" for her. Now, on planet Earth, if there are hundreds of women going through recruitment -- and if, as at Purdue, the timing and details of the formal recruitment process are new to everybody this year -- a sorority may not have the time and energy to put into tracking down a recommendation or going through a special process to make sure someone is "sponsored."
So my guess is that it would be a good idea to try to get recommendations to as many of the Purdue sororities as possible.
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are you saying basically by rule some sororities will only have women who have had recs on thier bid list and those without recs are automatically cut?
if so, my friend should try to get a rec to all chapters if possible if she is serious about rush, correct?
and i know there are posts about this but honestly, how can you ask someoen who doesn't know you to write you a rec? I feel that a rec is a voucher for someone's character and if you can't back it up it is worthless. Personally, I think the system of giving "points" to PNMs for having recs or only considering those with recs is ridiculous. I think selections should be made by WHO the PNM is as an individual.
and to a degree i have the same opinion on legacies...just bc a woman is a legacy of a house does not mean she will be a good fit for that house. I understand that it is out of respect for the woman's mother/grandmother to give extra consideration for a PNM who is a legacy. in my opinion, to require that a legacy must be on a bid list is ridiculous. I know several women who joined thier legacy houses because they knew they were going to get in and because those houses had particular reputations. However, when they realized later on that they did not fit in, they left.
Another situation, one of my friends is a member of another chapter on campus. My friend told me that the policy for her house on our campus is that legacies MUST be on thier bid list if they make it to preferences. we had a PNM going through rush who was cut from every house but her legacy house and 1 other. Neither house were houses she wanted, and unfortunately the chapter she was a legacy to did not have the best opinion of her due to how she acted towards them during rush. fortunately for that chapter, the woman dropped out of rush so that chapter was able to have a woman who WAS a great fit for thier house in thier pledge class who might have otherwise been dissapointed.