Alabama Recruitment Prediction (Fall 2008)

[uamomma]

Does anyone know if chapters are obligated to invite legacies back to at least one round before they can be cut from their list?

[KSUViolet06]

Originally Posted by uamomma

Does anyone know if chapters are obligated to invite legacies back to at least one round before they can be cut from their list?

Legacy policies vary by sorority. Ideally there are some courtesies extended to legacies depending on the policy (though they aren't guaranteed bids), but keep in mind that at some schools chapters may have so many legacies coming through that they could theoretically fill an entire pledge class with legacies, so they just cannot keep them all.

This is why we tell PNMs not to think that being a legacy means they're "a shoe-in" because at some big schools, there are ALOT of legacies.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by uamomma

Does anyone know if chapters are obligated to invite legacies back to at least one round before they can be cut from their list?

It's a suggestion, to be tailored to the school. At schools where there are few legacies, (ie. the Northeast) it is pretty common to invite all of your legacies back for round 2, no matter how terrible of a fit they may be with your chapter, as a courtesy to the relative, and because you can. My chapter does, but the most legacies we've had going through in recent years was 6. One of my friends who is in a sorority at Virginia Tech said they had "a lot" of legacies go through in 2007. When I asked how much "a lot" was, she said, "Oh, like 12." Quota is usually 30-40s there.

At SEC schools and other competitive schools in the South, the policy is unreasonable. If a chapter has more legacies than quota (ie the chapter at Bama rumored to have 200), it would be unfair to outstanding non-legacies. I'm purely speculating, but maybe they release a certain percentage of non-legacies and a lower percentage of legacies to get to the required number of cuts per Panhellenic.