Most Competitive Greek Systems?

[exlurker]

Originally Posted by Titchou

What it means is:

1) You must have a rec at Alabama

2) It's best that you get them yourself because of the sheer volume of women going thru and the fact that many of them send in 2 forms per house - or more! And the very compressed time frame during recruitment doesn't allow much leeway.

3) IF they REALLY want you, it is POSSIBLE for the group to locate someone to do a rec for you (I get calls from schools for recs from my town because they know I've done them before but it's really difficult when they call and say we love her and need something in an hour!)

4) But it's best to not put yourself in that position because the odds of them wanting you badly enough to go to that trouble during recruitment week are pretty slim

I hope the following isn't too far from the actual situation:
From what I've heard and read about recruitment at Alabama -- and campuses with similar kinds of recruitment -- I get the strong impression that one of the reasons that "the odds of them wanting you badly enough to go to that trouble during recruitment week are pretty slim" is that :

if you don't have a rec at the start, there's a higher probablity that you'll be cut after the open house round or the first invitational round; sororities that are required to cut large or enormous numbers of PNMs very often start cutting by grades and/or lack of recs (and/or, as always, "reputation").

So, frankly, many sororities may not really have the time to get to know and luuuuuuvvv someone without a rec -- she'll be cut early because they have to start cutting somewhere.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by exlurker

I hope the following isn't too far from the actual situation:
From what I've heard and read about recruitment at Alabama -- and campuses with similar kinds of recruitment -- I get the strong impression that one of the reasons that "the odds of them wanting you badly enough to go to that trouble during recruitment week are pretty slim" is that :

if you don't have a rec at the start, there's a higher probablity that you'll be cut after the open house round or the first invitational round; sororities that are required to cut large or enormous numbers of PNMs very often start cutting by grades and/or lack of recs (and/or, as always, "reputation").

So, frankly, many sororities may not really have the time to get to know and luuuuuuvvv someone without a rec -- she'll be cut early because they have to start cutting somewhere.

Yeah, pretty much. Although hopefully a pre-freshman girl doesn't have a "reputation" at the college already. If she does, it's probably a negative one.

[KKGis4Me]

What I was confused about, was why they would have someone write you a rec KNOWING that person doesn't KNOW you, and therefore the rec basically has no validity...

But are you all essentially saying that the rec is need because a PNM gets points based off different aspects she brings to the table such as grades, high school activities, etc, and that she also gets points from having a rec, therefore they get an alum to write a rec, not for the alum's actual perspective about the PNM, but instead because it will give her needed points to compete with other PNMs that have all the other stuff and recs? Is this the basic concept?