Auburn Recruitment

[SWTXBelle]

I have actually advised girls going through recruitment at very competitive schools to NOT list their legacy chapter(s) on the panhellenic form - just have the family members send a legacy notification form to the chapter/write a rec. I hate to say it, but I've known too many cases where being a known legacy to another house may have hurt a pnm's chances - of course, we'll never know for sure, but there just doesn't seem to be much of a reason to let other houses know you are a legacy to another house.

[UGAalum94]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I have actually advised girls going through recruitment at very competitive schools to NOT list their legacy chapter(s) on the panhellenic form - just have the family members send a legacy notification form to the chapter/write a rec. I hate to say it, but I've known too many cases where being a known legacy to another house may have hurt a pnm's chances - of course, we'll never know for sure, but there just doesn't seem to be much of a reason to let other houses know you are a legacy to another house.

I agree. I think we may be overestimating the effect of being a legacy at other chapters because there's no way of really knowing why a girl was released and the increasing number of legacies might make bad outcomes seem more common.

But other than communicating that you would really understand the commitment of being greek, it's hard to see how it benefits the PNM at all to list it.

Perhaps we all should push to have panhellenic drop the question from their recruitment forms.

SWTXBelle, can you bring yourself to leave the information off your RIFs or recs when you know a girl is a legacy to another group? I have a hard time with this. It's one thing to encourage a girl to omit information that no group particularly needs, but knowingly withholding it from my own group is much harder. It's specifically requested by our form.

[GPhiBLtColonel]

Originally Posted by UGAalum94

I agree. I think we may be overestimating the effect of being a legacy at other chapters because there's no way of really knowing why a girl was released and the increasing number of legacies might make bad outcomes seem more common.

But other than communicating that you would really understand the commitment of being greek, it's hard to see how it benefits the PNM at all to list it.

Perhaps we all should push to have panhellenic drop the question from their recruitment forms.

SWTXBelle, can you bring yourself to leave the information off your RIFs or recs when you know a girl is a legacy to another group? I have a hard time with this. It's one thing to encourage a girl to omit information that no group particularly needs, but knowingly withholding it from my own group is much harder. It's specifically requested by our form.

There is a local girl rushing now at Auburn and she is a double XYZ legacy (thru her sisters) and a double ABC legacy (Mom & Grandmother). This PNM's oldest sister graduated from Auburn two years ago - she broke the mold by not joining her legacy sorority (ABC). Now the middle sister is the current president of XYZ. I have know her mom for years and she told me that this daughter really wanted to blaze her own path and was not necessarily going to join XYZ if she got a bid. So on her her GPB rec, it said something to the effect of "Susie PNM is not necessarily going to join her sister's sorority so please do not count her out just because of her legacy ties. Please give her every consideration if you all want her to be GPB...because I would love for her to be my sister!" You get the picture....

Of course this only works if you actually know the legacy and that she truly is interested in other sororities besides her legacy group.

I think Katmandu mentioned doing something like this too....

On a related note: this is an extract from an email our local Alum Panhel president got from Bama Greek Life:

"Additionally, some chapters have more than 200 legacies participating in recruitment; therefore, they have twice as many legacies going through recruitment than what quota could be anticipated to be. Needless to say, this prevents some chapters from pledging a majority of their legacies."

[PJS]

Originally Posted by SWTXBelle

I have actually advised girls going through recruitment at very competitive schools to NOT list their legacy chapter(s) on the panhellenic form - just have the family members send a legacy notification form to the chapter/write a rec. I hate to say it, but I've known too many cases where being a known legacy to another house may have hurt a pnm's chances - of course, we'll never know for sure, but there just doesn't seem to be much of a reason to let other houses know you are a legacy to another house.

My second daughter is going through recruitment this fall. Daughter #1 was cut by my house and also received fairly heavy cuts elsewhere; of course I wondered if the legacy status hurt her. Daughter #2 goes through this fall (same campus), but we decided to list her statuses (she also has one additional legacy house to list), hoping that showing a "multipanhellenic" status will help "blunt" the effect of having a sister who is an active. Since Daughter #1 knows lots of people in other houses, we felt it was the better choice. We think it was a good thing, because both daughters have talked to actives the last few weeks who have said variations of "I guess it won't do any good to rush you/your sister since you'll probably pledge XYZ!"