Fraternity Legacy Question

[LXA]

Legacy usually works like this:

1. If you had a relative in that chapter who donates a lot of money, you'll be getting a bid. The fraternity doesn't want to lose alumni donor money.
2. If you had a relative in that chapter, you'll probably get a bid unless you don't fit in.
3. If you have relatives in that same national fraternity, it'll probably help you out a little bit — it's a good conversation starter, it gets your foot in the door, etc. We bid a national legacy last year, but he would have gotten a bid regardless.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by LXA

Legacy usually works like this:

1. If you had a relative in that chapter who donates a lot of money, you'll be getting a bid. The fraternity doesn't want to lose alumni donor money.
2. If you had a relative in that chapter, you'll probably get a bid unless you don't fit in.
3. If you have relatives in that same national fraternity, it'll probably help you out a little bit — it's a good conversation starter, it gets your foot in the door, etc. We bid a national legacy last year, but he would have gotten a bid regardless.

When you start talking about how things "usually" work, you should probably speak for your own chapter, your own campus and your own fraternity and not for anyone else. Different fraternities have different rules, and as TSteven (who is a member of the fraternity the OP asked about) said, it can vary from chapter to chapter and campus to campus.