Recommendations vs. Recs?

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by Zillini

Especially considering this is Auburn, mom should send in BOTH the legacy intro and a Rec in addition to the friend's Rec. This way the PNM has 2 Recs, not just 1.

At least for my GLO, the 2 forms are very different and are treated differently by the chapters. The purpose of the Intro form is merely to confirm someone is in fact a legacy. It doesn't ask anything about activities, GPA, or whatnot. That's what a Rec form is for. Granted one assumes a legacy mom or grandma would recommend their PNM, but we can't give someone credit without the proper form.

So you'd prefer the mom send a rec than having her get two sisters to send recs?

[sydney bristow]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

So you'd prefer the mom send a rec than having her get two sisters to send recs?

Kentucky isn't quite as competitive as other SEC schools (don't get me wrong it is very competitive, but Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, and LSU's recruitments are competitive on steriods) but I think it would be best to have the mom do the legacy introduction and the rec if she wants BUT have another sister (preferably someone who knows the PNM well) to write another rec. Obviously someone's mother is going to recommend them but it would mean more to have another alumna rec. Just my 2 cents anyway.

Also, if your recruitment is in the fall get your recs in ASAP.

If your school has deferred, I'd still have them in maybe within the first two weeks of fall semester because I know some deferred schools will have PNMs over to lunch or dinner and having a rec will probably put on the list for them to call you!

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by sydney bristow

Kentucky isn't quite as competitive as other SEC schools (don't get me wrong it is very competitive, but Bama, Auburn, Ole Miss, and LSU's recruitments are competitive on steriods) but I think it would be best to have the mom do the legacy introduction and the rec if she wants BUT have another sister (preferably someone who knows the PNM well) to write another rec. Obviously someone's mother is going to recommend them but it would mean more to have another alumna rec. Just my 2 cents anyway.

Also, if your recruitment is in the fall get your recs in ASAP.

If your school has deferred, I'd still have them in maybe within the first two weeks of fall semester because I know some deferred schools will have PNMs over to lunch or dinner and having a rec will probably put on the list for them to call you!

That's what I was thinking, too, Sydney. Though, if you could only get mom for a rec, I'm sure it would do.

[sydney bristow]

Originally Posted by AOII Angel

That's what I was thinking, too, Sydney. Though, if you could only get mom for a rec, I'm sure it would do.

Oh yeah absolutely. Obviously it's better to have more (well, don't go overboard) but at ultra-competitive schools having 3-5 wouldn't be uncommon. I remember last year we had a few PNMs with that many recs and like I said, we're competitive, but Bama/LSU/Ole Miss/Auburn deserve a whole 'nother adjective to describe their recruitment.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by sydney bristow

Oh yeah absolutely. Obviously it's better to have more (well, don't go overboard) but at ultra-competitive schools having 3-5 wouldn't be uncommon. I remember last year we had a few PNMs with that many recs and like I said, we're competitive, but Bama/LSU/Ole Miss/Auburn deserve a whole 'nother adjective to describe their recruitment.

When I was going to go through recruitment at LSU, I was told to have 2 recs for every chapter at LSU, no exceptions. I would like to know from any LSU GCers (I know we don't have many) if that is still true.