An Alum writing a Rec for me but waiting for membership# and deadline soon!? Advice?

[FAnne]

Well, I've been a long time lurker and never really posted any threads. Anyway, I'm rushing this fall and I know this super nice lady who is really enthusiatic about writing me a rec for the chapter of a sorority represented at my school.

The deadline for recommendations is only a couple days away. At first, she told me that she would really love to write me a rec and it would definitely be in by the deadline (this was about 1.5 weeks ago). Anyway, she had some problems with her membership number a couple days ago when she was about to send it in and is now waiting for a response from member services for her membership number.

I told her that she didn't really need a membership number and graduation year/college/chapter would suffice (considering she graduated from college 15 years ago.) but she insisted believing that the rec would be more "valid." She also told me she wants to contact the chapter sorority at my university and let them know that my rec would be in a bit late because of the delay of her membership number.

I don't really know what I'm asking, but do you think the rec would still be accepted? Has there ever been similar situations? Um advice/comments would be really appreciated as I don't know a lot about sororities/recruitment.

Thanks!

Fanne