Before Rushing Into Sorority Recruitment

[TXDG]

Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by nyapbp

Actually, I was thinking Texas, Arkansas and Alabama. The numbers of legacies going through some chapters at schools in those states can be overwhelming. Moreover, those who have legacies going through do not understand that no chapter wants to limit the women on their top lists to legacies alone. However, the hurt that those women sometimes feel, when it is their daughter or granddaughter who doesn't get invited to preference, can be as fresh decades later as it was when it happened.

AnchorAlumna is correct. Many pnm's in Texas are legacies to 4+ sororities. One of the pnm's I wrote a rec for this year meets the legacy relationship criteria for Kappa, Theta, PiPhi, and TriDelt between her mother and grandmothers. Most of the pnm's for whom I write recs (in Dallas) are legacies to at least 2 houses.

I've never heard of a chapter having enough legacies going through to fill 4 pledge classes over, but having enough to fill 2 or almost 2 is not a stretch at schools where Greek Life is huge and chapters are 75+ years old.

[nyapbp]

Originally Posted by TXDG

AnchorAlumna is correct. Many pnm's in Texas are legacies to 4+ sororities. One of the pnm's I wrote a rec for this year meets the legacy relationship criteria for Kappa, Theta, PiPhi, and TriDelt between her mother and grandmothers. Most of the pnm's for whom I write recs (in Dallas) are legacies to at least 2 houses.

I've never heard of a chapter having enough legacies going through to fill 4 pledge classes over, but having enough to fill 2 or almost 2 is not a stretch at schools where Greek Life is huge and chapters are 75+ years old.

You're right. Three and four times is an exaggeration. If it could figure out how to edit it in the post, I would.