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On the question of recs. The result is to exclude PNMs who are first in family college students, particularly if they are from a blue-collar background and live in the wrong part of town, whether that is the intention or not. My SEC school has 17 sororities and if you don’t have a rec it is an automatic first round cut. If you are a legacy it is fairly easy to get a rec for every chapter. Everybody writes one for everybody else. If you are first in family it can be a big problem. My HS best friend had to scramble to get recs even though she had top HS grades, sports, activities and ACTs. Some alums, particularly in the top tier chapters, told her they wouldn’t write her one because they didn’t know her personally and rebuffed her when she said would send them a resume and meet with them. Some asked intrusive questions about her family background and the job her father had only to make excuses why they wouldn’t write her one. She eventually did get one for every chapter but only after considerable effort on her part.
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