Recs aren't [are!] necessary

[Titchou]

It has been said and am sure someone will take the time to give you some links.

In the meantime, not all 26 NPC groups require - as part of their national policy - recs. The majority do though. However, on some campuses, esp SEC ones, so many women go thru recruitment that the only way to have any sort of competitive edge is to be sure and have them. When cuts are made after first round, the groups will know more about you than they found out in a 30 minute ice water tea. It just isn't feasible for the individual groups who require them to go thru the process of getting them for 1500 women.

That being said, the college PH, as an extension of NPC, cannot tell the PNMs that recs are required as they have to reflect NPC. And since NPC can't say you have to have them - as the individual groups determine what you have to have to join them - the CPH has to follow the parent organization.

[honeychile]

Surely there's a way to say "while we say that you do not need recs to have a successful recruitment, those who have them are 100,000 times more likely to have a better recruitment experience."