Having rec letters can hurt your chances

[Kansas City]

Originally Posted by lrdavis5

The word is that if they have ANY doubts about the rushee who has a rec letter, she is cut after the first round and actually gets more scrutiny than if she had no letter.

I think that the PNMs got cut because of the "doubts" and not because she had a recommendation. I'd still advise getting recs for any school if possible. If a PNM gets cut, it's most likely that something about her (conversation, grades, etc.) didn't match up well with the chapter. Recs are not a guarantee to get a PNM to a next round and "Legacy" status is totally different from having or not having a recommendation.