Legacy disclosure

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Originally Posted by FloMo Mom

My daughter is going through recruitment next week. We listed both legacy chapters on her resume. She is a legacy through grandmothers and great-grandmothers. We talked about leaving this information off the resume and decided to be honest and include it. I'll let you know later if it was a good or bad idea!

I hate this frame. A resume is an opportunity to present your case. You put stuff on it that makes your best case and leave off stuff that hurts your case. Leaving off legacy information isn't dishonest. It's just making sure you are stating your best case for membership.

If a form asks the question and you don't answer, you aren't lying. You declining to answer. Frankly, I think that question should not be asked since it is harmful to PNMs in the current environment. We used to ask to make sure that legacies got the special attention they deserved. It was designed to make sure that legacies came to the attention of their legacy chapter. It was a helpful question, not a harmful. I don't find it dishonest to decline to answer a question when legacy information really is only the business of the PNM's legacy chapter(s).

Asking if someone is a legacy is like asking how much money their Daddy makes or where I go to church. The chapters might be interested in that information, but they really don't deserve an answer to the question. If I need to you know that, I'll tell you. Otherwise, I'm not answering the question.