UT-Austin Legacy Status now a "hidden field"???

[AnchorAlum]

Does it show that a family member was a sorority member, but leaves out which one?

At UT, I think this will be a game changer. If you don't drop your legacy right away you can forget about being asked back by other houses and you better hope your legacy invites you back after second round.

It kept my daughter from being asked to prefs at a house she really loved - not at UT, but at another very competitive school.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

It kept my daughter from being asked to prefs at a house she really loved - not at UT, but at another very competitive school.

How does she know that?

[honeychile]

I can remember the recruitments of two different sisters who were legacies to another house. We weren't a "high rec" campus, but both of these women told us that they were legacies to another house, but they felt they weren't being treated well at their legacy chapters. The one had TWO sisters currently in her legacy chapter, and really wasn't socially inept or had bad grades or whatever. It was a huge shocker!

Some things just have a way of becoming known.

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

How does she know that?

She became close friends with some of the girls in that house; they had been in the same rush group, and in fact still stay in touch to this day, twelve years later.

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

She became close friends with some of the girls in that house; they had been in the same rush group, and in fact still stay in touch to this day, twelve years later.

So either they violated MS secrecy or they quite possibly presented a biased view to their friend.

Yeah that's totally reliable.

I'm just making the point that NO ONE who wasn't sitting in that room knows why someone is dropped and most people IN the room wouldn't be able to tell you later either unless someone really sticks out. Even then there are multiple perspectives - "would have made it but she was a legacy somewhere else" might just as easily have been "didn't make the cut and wasn't worth trying 'steal' from her legacy chapter"

Making claims to knowing when that violates every one of our organizations' policies (I'm comfortable making this blanket claim unless someone would like to speak otherwise) is irresponsible and sets a poor example by giving dropped PNMs an easy 'excuse.'

[AnchorAlum]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

So either they violated MS secrecy or they quite possibly presented a biased view to their friend.

Yeah that's totally reliable.

I'm just making the point that NO ONE who wasn't sitting in that room knows why someone is dropped and most people IN the room wouldn't be able to tell you later either unless someone really sticks out. Even then there are multiple perspectives - "would have made it but she was a legacy somewhere else" might just as easily have been "didn't make the cut and wasn't worth trying 'steal' from her legacy chapter"

Making claims to knowing when that violates every one of our organizations' policies (I'm comfortable making this blanket claim unless someone would like to speak otherwise) is irresponsible and sets a poor example by giving dropped PNMs an easy 'excuse.'

Reliably irrelevant.

How's that for blanket?

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by AnchorAlum

Reliably irrelevant.

How's that for blanket?

So don't bring it up, and we're cool, G.