Before Rushing Into Sorority Recruitment

[Titchou]

That's an exaggeration but large numbers of legacies can vary from campus to campus for individual groups. For example, DG was founded in Oxford, MS in 1873. We have many more legacies going thru at Ole Miss and State than we would want to pledge. Having a pledge class of 50% or more legacies can cause lack of diversity and not open membership up in new areas. I have not seen all the stats for these two chapters but I do know that they have had 40ish NMs in NM classes of 110 or so in the past. That's pretty legacy heavy.

[TLLK]

One of my DG chapter sisters has a daughter who is going to rush at Ole Miss this year.

[tcsparky]

I can certainly see it happening at Bama, Arkansas and other schools which have large Greek life membership that they could have more legacies than quota. Depending upon the exact legacy rules of the organizations on that campus, a woman could easily be a legacy to multiple organizations through grandmother, mother, aunt, sisters. It is conceivable that many of the women going through Recruitment are legacies +, therefore multiple organizations could have quota + in legacies going through!!!

[AnchorAlumna]

Consider that 1 girl could be a legacy to 4 or even more sororities. If you have long-established chapters, it's entirely possible. Sorority life began at Alabama in 1904, so that's 6 generations.

[DGTess]

Originally Posted by Titchou

That's an exaggeration but large numbers of legacies can vary from campus to campus for individual groups. For example, DG was founded in Oxford, MS in 1873. We have many more legacies going thru at Ole Miss and State than we would want to pledge. Having a pledge class of 50% or more legacies can cause lack of diversity and not open membership up in new areas. I have not seen all the stats for these two chapters but I do know that they have had 40ish NMs in NM classes of 110 or so in the past. That's pretty legacy heavy.

Now that I completely understand, and to me it seems obvious. But then, I also realize my experience is colored by my introduction at a small private proud-of-not-being-like-everyone-else school in the 70s. (I had dinner the other night with a few chapter sisters, and we could actually remember only one legacy, ever, and a couple of others with DG ties but technically not legacies.)