Daughter is a legacy and was cut

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Just to stress what the others have said, your daughter will not have a clean slate for Fall Recruitment. This does not mean she will not be successful, but it is important that you weigh that against Spring Recruitment before the decision is made. Without getting into any membership selection, chapters know exactly who has walked into their doors in the past and this is especially true of legacy candidates. Earlier posters are 100% correct that legacies are released as soon as possible so that they can put their best foot forward at other houses. For most houses this occurs after round 2.

If your daughter has grown as a person and has become significantly more outgoing since arriving at UNC, then maybe Fall recruitment would be a good option for her, but being known on campus can work equally against you too. She needs to take a hard long look at the relationships that she has formed and find out if she has made deep rooted connections with girls in the houses she was always interested in.

I have to agree that when you state she has friends in houses that she "likes" but doesn't "love" that reputation and tiers have to be in play here. I think it is natural, but I find that reputations at some of the major SEC and Southern Schools are just that...reputations. Some of the best sisterhoods around are found where people think they don't want to look. When a chapter faces any type of adversity because they are labeled from the 60s-70's-80's, they form strong bonds of solidarity that are far stronger and more loving than those found in houses, that from the outside seem like the beat all, end all of Sorority Row.

EVERY single GLO has something to offer. Some stress academics, some stress being social butterflies, the list goes on. What this will all boil down to is if your daughter wants to be Greek or not. If she does, she has nothing to lose by going through Spring Recruitment, trying each chapter on for size and then making a decision. Right now it is simply speculation that she does not "love" any of the recruiting chapters. If she leaves Spring Recruitment without a home then she can try Fall.

I have said this before and I will say it again here because it is fitting. Reputations are tricky things. A good one can hide a flawed sisterhood, and bad one can hide a good one.