Elaborating on what exlurker said:
On campuses where Recs are required and girls that don't know any greeks are put in touch with alumnae panhellenics . . . could that be construed as pre-screening?
In fact, thats an interesting question . . . what if some member that interviews that girl jus doesn't like her? Or wants to decreases the competition for girls she does like? Doesn't her possible weak or even negative recomendation possibly prejudice a house away from a great girl?
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Originally posted by exlurker
What Jocelyn said! To get an idea of what Alumnae Panhellenics do regarding recruitment, check out some of the links to a few Texas Alumnae Panhellenics listed in the "Alumnae Panhellenics - Recruitment Information Sessions - list them here" thread in the Rush forum. A LOT of Texas schools are very competitive or ultracompetitive (Texas - Austin, Southern Methodist, A&M, Texas Tech, Baylor, Texas Christian, and on and on), so those sites may give you a pretty good idea.
Now, there can be an element that you might think of as "pre-screening," but that would take place in each individual sorority's local or regional alumnae chapter / alumnae association. In some instances -- but not for all locations, and not for all sororities -- an alumnae recommendations committee of a particular sorority may make some decisions about which girls will be formally recommended by the alumnae chapter. Of course, individual alumnae (and sometimes actives) can write recommendations and send them directly to an active chapter, but there are places where the recommendations forwarded by an alumnae chapter may carry a little more weight. In other words, a particular sorority chapter MIGHT pay more a little more attention to a recommendation that came through their (let's say) San Antonio Alumnae Chapter than to one that just came from Mrs. Smith in suburban San Antonio. For another sorority on the same campus, it might not make a difference.
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