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Originally Posted by AnchorAlumna
I have to disagree.
The only time I knew who was going to college was when my daughter was a senior in high school.
It's much more helpful to get lists from the chapters of who has signed up, plus whatever info they have via their Panhellenic. I don't live in a tiny town, but it's big enough that I don't know everybody.
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I probably worded my post to sound a bit extreme. I agree that as alums we are usually only as good as the info we are given. But I have never been given a list of who has signed up for recruitment. Now, an organized alum group might do that...and they should, but in areas where that does not occur, I think alums need to communicate that they are available and willing to help.
I grew up in a city with a highly organized panhellenic organization. Women called pnms to offer to write recs (actually they called my mother) as much as pnms (or their moms) called women during the rec process. But now that I live in a much, much smaller town, I make it well known that I can write recs and often give girls a call who are going to a campus with a Greek system to let them know I am available to help.
Maybe the "lesson" in this thread is that the girls from small towns -especially those heading to large competitive recruitments, need the alums in those towns to step up and do more than just write a rec when asked. They need to spread the word that there is Greek help available in that town. I have a master list of all sorority women in the area (that I know of) to give to pnms. So many young girls from my area don't even know where to start. And, I can't tell you how many have called me in August! aah!
There might not be an organized group in many areas, but (imo) this is a way the alum can serve her GLO and NPC as a whole.
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