Having rec letters can hurt your chances

[33girl]

Originally Posted by OTW

Oh that should be a good recruitment story!

Or maybe the designated info getter for the kids on her street?

I wonder if she takes pictures of them when they trick or treat.

OK I'm getting in CT4's handbasket post haste.

[Benzgirl]

HMs.....They're baaaaaaaaaack!

[breathesgelatin]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

There is the other thread she started yesterday as well.

Twin son and daughter maybe?

Has UK NPC recruitment started yet?

Of course, I suppose son & daughter could go to different schools.

[Benzgirl]

Originally Posted by breathesgelatin

Has UK NPC recruitment started yet?

Of course, I suppose son & daughter could go to different schools.

In a couple of weeks http://www.kentuckyifc.com/page.php?page_id=11601

[AOIIalum]

I think UK starts next weekend.

If I had a daughter rushing at UK, she'd have recs.

[FSUZeta]

if a particular chapter is looking at recs. as a negative thing, then their advisors and the local alumnae that help them during recruitment should help them to understand the purpose of recs. and the benefit that a recommendation can be to recruitment.

[kreich]

Originally Posted by bevinpiphi

The OP, according to her profile, is supposedly a "ZTA Michigan State alum" from Winnetka, IL.

If her daughter went to public high school, she went to my alma matter. Funny.

[kchaptergphib]

As someone who's quite familiar with at least 3 of the 11 Big Ten schools, I'd say recs would only help. Legacy status can get a little tricky, usually for the schools where a HUGE number of women from the same hometowns and families will go to the same school -Illinois, Minnesota, maybe Purdue and Wisconsin. Being a legacy wouldn't necessarily hurt your chances at your legacy chapter, but, as sometimes happens, non-legacy orgs might assume you're going to your legacy chapter, and act differently, so if you lost your legacy house, you'd have the chance of being cross-cut.
Again, this doesn't happen that often in the Big 10 schools (that I know of). And if recs were written, the orgs felt the fit was not right for them.

[AnchorAlum]

A letter or two can help tremendously, especially if the girl is attending an out of state school some distance from home.

However, the horror stories told about some girls who have 30 or 40 letters and how it worked against the girl are spot on. Some in the chapter may say
"Uh, is this person such a weak candidate that they NEED all these letters?"

[LAblondeGPhi]

I call BS.

Bottom line: if you have recs and were cut early, that pretty much means you were DEFINITELY GOING TO GET CUT as some point no matter what.

I can't speculate about other GLOs' policies, but maybe some organizations have really special procedures with how to handle girls with recs who make it to a certain point, and the chapter women want to make sure the PNM never even gets to that point. Maybe some chapters have to make a personal phone call to the alumna who wrote the rec if Suzy Rec PNM makes it to Pref but then doesn't get a bid. By cutting her early, it saves a lot of awkwardness. Who knows. It's all secret. It should all stay secret.