My (live) Recruitment Story!

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by izzygirl

Dolphin: My Aunt was a member of this sorority, and at my university, aunts count for legacies. Her and her friend wrote me letters of rec for this sorority, and letters of rec are not as common at my university as they are in other places, so my sorority friends seem to think think this is a very big deal. Again, they have a beautiful house and I have heard wonderful things about it's members, so going in, this is definitely one I am aiming to impress!

Legacies are an organization thing, not a campus thing. It may be that your recruitment registration form asked about aunts/cousins, but that has absolutely no bearing on the membership selection policies of individual organizations.

[violetpretty]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Legacies are an organization thing, not a campus thing. It may be that your recruitment registration form asked about aunts/cousins, but that has absolutely no bearing on the membership selection policies of individual organizations.

The Panhellenic form may ask about any relation because some sororities do consider nieces to be legacies and others don't. Since you said your university is in an area of the country where Greek life is not as popular (i.e. there's not tons of legacies), the particular chapter may wish to apply their National's legacy policy to nieces. I won't claim to know the exact legacy policy of every NPC, but I am sure none of them guarantee a bid to legacies; it's something along the lines of a "courtesy invite to first invitational round" and "special consideration". Or perhaps Greeks on your campus refer to nieces and cousins of members as "legacies" colloquially speaking, but they do not have to apply their National's legacy policy to them.