I can testify to the importance of not bringing up your legacy status in conversation since I mentioned my active AOII sister at parties (I couldn't think of anything else to talk about since I'm nervous in those situations!) and was promptly cut despite a great application from every group...even the struggling chapter. I unknowingly gave off the impression that I was only interested in AOII from day 1. Not a good idea. Just having a legacy on your application is not going to hurt you at the vast majority of schools unless they include Bama, Georgia or any other big SEC school. Those recruitments are completely different!
P.S. If asked about your mother, stress that she wants you to be happy at the chapter that is right for YOU!
There's a huge difference between having an in-house active sister and a mom who graduated 18 years ago. Right or wrong, the assumption is the PNM wants to pledge where here sister is.
There's a huge difference between having an in-house active sister and a mom who graduated 18 years ago. Right or wrong, the assumption is the PNM wants to pledge where here sister is.
Of course that is true, but some chapters apparently will cut you for being a legacy. I cannot assume that I would have been cut regardless of my comments since my roommate was the sister of the KD president with worse grades than me and was not cut from all of the groups. She did pledge KD in the end, but she went to Phi Mu for prefs as well. No matter what your legacy is, talking about it too much without making sure your rusher knows you are keeping an open mind is not wise. People have certainly been cut for less.
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Do the sororities know who the PNM's are actually going back to for each round? Who their competition is? The PNM may have already cut their legacy chapter....or vice versa.
unless the pnm shares that information with her rush hostess, ordinarily the sororities do not know-they are not about to share who came back to their parties, who is on their invitation list, etc. with other sororities and the recruitment counselors and the panhellenic officers are disaffiliated from their chapters and are not supposed to be communicating with their chapters.
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