Thank you to the GC posters!

[Meanjean]

BlueCarnation, we also live in an area where recs are uncommon. I don’t know about the women my daughter met through the ‘cold-calling’ process, but I’m pretty positive that it was the very first sorority recommendation that almost all of our personal contacts had written! Most people seemed surprised that we were asking.

We persevered on the hunt for two reasons. First, my daughter asked a friend who is an upperclassman at a different SEC school if she had done recs. The girl said that she hadn’t but that, now that she had been on both sides of recruitment, she wished that she had. She loved where she ended up, but she felt that the process would have been less difficult if she had had recs. Secondly, from my point of view, so much of the process is out of your hands, why not do what you can to make it less uncomfortable?

[DubaiSis]

Originally Posted by Meanjean

...from my point of view, so much of the process is out of your hands, why not do what you can to make it less uncomfortable?

This. I am not a fan of the recommendations system (I think it should be reserved for close personal/family friends and that's it) but it is the system that is in place so why fight it? Do the work and you can at least check that box.

Great story so far. Waiting for more.

[jolene]

Originally Posted by DubaiSis

This. I am not a fan of the recommendations system (I think it should be reserved for close personal/family friends and that's it) but it is the system that is in place so why fight it? Do the work and you can at least check that box.

Great story so far. Waiting for more.

Amen, my Alpha Xi Delta sister. I was the first in my fam to go to college, much less go Greek. I would have been screwed even though I had a great GPA and activities, but no connections or a clue about sororities. I joined to get involved/plugged in to campus. Originally, I thought you had to be asked to rush and didn't know it was something girls could easily sign up for.