Auburn University Recruitment 2014

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From Auburn Panhellenic website:

Letters of Recommendation

What should I do if I don't know anyone from multiple sororities to write recommendation letters for me?
Recommendation letters are NOT required! The only thing you need to go through Recruitment is to register on our website! Recommendation letters are considered to be like "extra credit" and each chapter places varying levels of importance on them. If you cannot secure a Recommendation letter to multiple sororities, don't worry about it! It is not a big deal at all. You can always try reaching out to local area almnae groups to see if they would be willing to write you a Recommendation but overall, it really is not necessary! You also don't need to worry about whether the sororities know about you. Once you register, all sororities have access to the information you submitted, which is basically what goes on a resume. If they want to give you an invitation, they can get a recommendation based on your registration.

Should I get a rec for all 17 sororities? Is it okay to have more than one rec for a sorority?
Like we said Recommendation letters are like "extra credit," so they are in no way required to go through Recruitment! If you want to work on them, great! If not, there is nothing to worry about! If you only have Recommendations for a few and not some others, thats fine too! If you want to secure multiple Recommendation letters for one sorority, that is fine (but definitely not necessary). No more than 2 per chapter would be a good number!

Woah. Just now seeing this. Why in the world would they write that about recs? That is absolutely cruel and flies in the face of what many (most? all?) chapters believe and follow about recs.

Our alumnae panhellenic sends scores of girls to Auburn each year and we do everything in our might to help them be as prepared as possible. Many girls are first generation. Going up against college panhellenic website crap like this doesn't help our cause in trying to educate our local girls on the necessity of recommendations.

It's one thing when CPC's write the standard "it's up to the chapter to secure a rec if they are interested in you." This one is over the top "recs aren't a big deal," which is the absolute opposite of what our APH is hearing from the college chapters. Technically the CPC doesn't require recs to *participate* in recruitment, but to mislead the PNMs that individual groups don't require them is utterly wrong.