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Originally posted by sport
Actually, I don't know many potential rec-writers myself. My mother is going to call her friends from her own sorority for the legacy recs and then call the local graduate Panhel group for contacts to the other sororities. We don't live in an area where greek life is routinely discussed by people my mother's age.
Is the advice still the same? I just don't want to mess up my chances before I even start!
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Yes, still the same. What I meant was to avoid the following true story:
Susie Q rushee is a legacy at ABC at a competitive school. She gets recs from her mom and several of her mom's sisters, but also seeks out random people on the internet so that she will have 14 recs. The sisters at ABC realize that the girl has gotten recs from random people and wonder why she is working so hard to make herself look good when just the recs from mom and mom's sisters would have been fine. This makes the sisters at ABC wary of Susie Q when she is going through recruitment.
It's wonderful that your mom is helping you to seek out recs from local alum chapters for the houses you don't have contacts to. I also encourage you to ask your teachers if they were Greek. I am a high school drama teacher, and I know that a lot of my colleagues were Greek, so high schools are a great place to find recs from people you already know!