How Moms Should Treat Their Legacy Daughters

[carnation]

Obviously, the old quota system has played into this: the one where quota was set after first or second parties that had some groups taking massive numbers and the others less than 10. Even as a collegian, I remarked to friends that it would result in huge numbers of legacies someday and it has.

Picture this scenario at bid matching: "Okay, ladies, we know that quota is 50 but since ABC has 200 legacies, they will be allowed to take them all. And DEF, you can have all 100 of yours."

The Greek system set itself up for this. It made a bunch of women really happy back in the day but now, we're reaping the worst of it.

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by MasTNX

Do you think legacies should be given any special treatment at all? If it's a super competitive school and there aren't enough spots for all legacies much less everyone else, then should legacies be given any type of 'head start' like a Legacy Luncheon before recruitment? It would seem like an unfair advantage, but isn't just being a legacy an advantage that wasn't earned?

This actually happened more than a few times with us. Legacy would be on campus tour with her parents, and Mom would end up bringing Legacy over to the Sorority Suite. This would be almost a year prior to her actually starting college, so it didn't quite cross that dirty rush line.

When I was rushing, one of the sisters' biological sister was often at the suite. I didn't know that she wasn't a sister until I was a pledge!