How Moms Should Treat Their Legacy Daughters

[Low C Sharp]

Here's a hypothetical. Suppose that quota at SEC U is 75, and XYZ, an old, established group, has 80 legacy PNMs. Say that 10 of them genuinely don't meet the XYZ standard, and maybe 5, though qualified, can be expected to choose a different group at prefs. If XYZ keeps all the remaining legacies, that would be 65/75 in its pledge class. We often hear "We can't take them all" or "The whole class would be legacies!"

I don't have a dog in the race, I'm just curious: why not have a class of mostly legacies, if they are qualified? Is it a sense that this would impair the diversity of the class? Are chapters worried about being perceived as exclusive and unfair (would that really be a bad thing at SEC U?)?

Same question, part 2: what if XYZ is a low-to-middle group at SEC U? Then does it make sense to take a mostly-legacy class?

it's harder to get into Harvard than into Booboo State

LOL! Sorry, I just thought that was hilarious.
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[33girl]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

I don't have a dog in the race, I'm just curious: why not have a class of mostly legacies, if they are qualified? Is it a sense that this would impair the diversity of the class? Are chapters worried about being perceived as exclusive and unfair (would that really be a bad thing at SEC U?)?

I'm sure the Greek community and the Greek alumni at SEC U would have no problem with that bolded concept. It's the "outside world" (the non-Greek university administration, the damn hippie professors, the local media) whose hides tend to get chapped and who use it as another "why Greeks are bad elitist horrid people" example.

Also as df pointed out, it would kind of suck to feel like you don't have any say in who you take as your sister, or that your opinion is severely limited. But as (I think it was) LadyLonghorn pointed out in another thread, a lot of time these girls all know each other going into rush anyway.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by Low C Sharp

Here's a hypothetical. Suppose that quota at SEC U is 75, and XYZ, an old, established group, has 80 legacy PNMs. Say that 10 of them genuinely don't meet the XYZ standard, and maybe 5, though qualified, can be expected to choose a different group at prefs. If XYZ keeps all the remaining legacies, that would be 65/75 in its pledge class. We often hear "We can't take them all" or "The whole class would be legacies!"

I don't have a dog in the race, I'm just curious: why not have a class of mostly legacies, if they are qualified? Is it a sense that this would impair the diversity of the class? Are chapters worried about being perceived as exclusive and unfair (would that really be a bad thing at SEC U?)?

Same question, part 2: what if XYZ is a low-to-middle group at SEC U? Then does it make sense to take a mostly-legacy class?

I would explain how this works (as both scenarios do happen often in the SEC), but it's membership selection information. Sorry!