Having rec letters can hurt your chances - Page 2

gee_ess · #1 08-07-2008, 02:20 PM

The entire OP sounds off-base and uninformed.

Regarding the actives' behavior when reading letters, that sounds like an isolated incident and something for the recruitment advisor to address with the chapter.

icelandelf · #2 08-07-2008, 02:22 PM

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Originally Posted by 33girl

Bet I know what else she is.

That makes sense to me now ^^^

Benzgirl · #3 08-07-2008, 06:14 PM

HMs.....They're baaaaaaaaaack!

kchaptergphib · #4 08-08-2008, 03:07 AM

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 · #5 08-08-2008, 09:23 PM

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 · #6 08-08-2008, 09:58 PM

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.