Has the tradition of Legacies outgrown its usefulness?

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Originally Posted by honeychile

Yes, but I'm thinking deeper. If you have 180 legacies who were groomed to be an ABC with her first onesie, and quota is 60, how do you tell 120 perfect women that she can't pledge the same house as her mother, grandmother, ggrandmother, etc? It seems too cruel - and yet, there will be other women who doesn't have any greeks in her family, but everyone loves her.

That's how life works. I mean, on the flipside of that, how would you tell the women without those ties that because they were not born into a family of ABCs, that they don't get the same chance to be one?

I think it would serve parents well to get up to speed on what it means to be a legacy in this day and age. Back when some moms were rushing, legacies may have been pretty much guaranteed bids. It simply doesn't work that way today.

I mean, I went to school in northern Ohio and saw legacies get get released from chapters at times. Depending on the year, there are just too many.