Really or read between the lines?

[FSUZeta]

Originally Posted by agzg

It'd be overkill on my campus, for sure. I would do what the people in the chat said to do OR call the Greek Life office to confirm. Does recruitment start before school for you?

how do people react on your campus if they receive a rec.?

i would think if a chapter has received a rec. and has never seen one, they would ask a chapter advisor about it and then either keep it as a novelty or just shred it. i would think it would impress people that someone went to the trouble of having one written, but recs. are important in the south, and i might be looking at the situation from a different perspective.

nevermind agzg, you must have replied as i was typing. thank you for your insight!

[agzg]

Originally Posted by FSUZeta

how do people react on your campus if they receive a rec.?

i would think if a chapter has received a rec. and has never seen one, they would ask a chapter advisor about it and then either keep it as a novelty or just shred it. i would think it would impress people that someone went to the trouble of having one written, but recs. are important in the south, and i might be looking at the situation from a different perspective.

nevermind agzg, you must have replied as i was typing. thank you for your insight!

I'm still going to reply.

We do get Legacy Introduction Forms, so I would imagine it would be treated in a similar manner. I can't speak to what other chapters get or what they do with it, but it would probably at least be read or considered, after talking to a chapter advisor about what it is. If an info only rec came with a resume and picture it probably would not be seen as overkill. It's when a PNM sends it herself that chapters might be like "wow this girl is trying too hard."

I don't think it would be seen as "impressive," but I can't speak to other people's impressions.

And yes, I know that many NPC groups "require" recs but really considering the massive amount of rulebreaking on my campus it's not really surprising that not only is that a rule we break, but one most of us have never heard of.

ETA: The picture thing might have been helpful if more women went through formal recruitment each year, but it usually wavers between 25 and 50 women, sometimes a little more, and since we have deferred recruitment most of the PNMs are recognizable to chapter members. For fall recruitment, it's COR, so even there recommendations/resumes/pictures aren't really necessary.

[33girl]

Originally Posted by agzg

And yes, I know that some NPC groups "require" recs but really considering the massive amount of rulebreaking on my campus it's not really surprising that not only is that a rule we break, but one most of us have never heard of.

FYP

Parfait - the schools you mentioned previously that you may be attending are going to have members in them whose sisters/friends went to large schools who DID need full-out recs (Mizzou, KU etc). I think they're going to be familiar with the concept of a rec/resume/photo combo and just think "oh, her cousin at KU helped her do this" or something of the like.

Even if you were going to my we saw one rec in 4 years school, I don't think we would have looked down on you for it in any way - just said "huh" and asked a higher up what to do with it.