legacy question

[rayray]

Ok i have a question...What exactly makes someone a legacy? Is it just blood related? or can it be a steprelative or and aunt? for example my grandmother's 2 sisters were in sororities, i think the same one. But the catch to this is that my grandmother is my stepgrandmother, but she is considered my grandma and nothing less. And i do consider her sisters my aunts. Although i dont talk to them (my aunts) often they have been apart of our lives.So my question is does this is anyway make me a legacy to my great aunts sororities?
thanks

[OUlioness01]

i bleieve in most cases you are a legacy if your mother, stepmother, grandmother, sister or stepsister is a member of that GLO. i htink a step grandparent would be admissable too. Aunts are not considered part of legacy.

[MysticCat]

Rayray, the degree of kinship that can constitute a legacy varies from GLO to GLO. You might want to post your question in the GreekChat forum of your great-aunts' sorority, where members of that sorority can tell you how they define legacy. Or you might contact the sorority's HQ.

BTW, remember that legacy usually does not equal automatic bid.

Good luck.

[tunatartare]

Do cousins constitute a legacy? Because I know I have a cousin who I've met like maybe once in my life who's in a sorority at her school. So would that sorority or her chapter consider me or my other cousin legacies if we went there. I'm only asking out of curiosity, of course, since I don't wanna be anything but KLP.

[GeekyPenguin]

Like MysticCat said, it really depends on the individual sorority. One thing you should consider - even if XYZ does not consider you a "legacy," a rec from a relative may sometimes carry a little more weight than a rec from a random lady you met through the local Alumnae Panhellenic.

[AlphaPhiBubbles]

I have never heard of cousins passing for legacies...cuz it seems like everyone has a lot of cousins usually, often ones you've never met (like me) so how could your cousin be passing something as special as letters down to you if you aren't close enough? I know that there are people who are really close to their cousins...but anyway I guess I really don't know. Maybe I should shut the hell up.

[ASUADPi]

All I know is my sororities policy on Legacies, which is Mother, Grandmother or Sister. Now if you have a cousin or a aunt as a member you aren't considered a legacy but you are given special consideration. Now this is all based on information I got the last time I participated in Formal fall rush which was in 1998, So I don't know how current the information is when it comes to cousins or aunts.

Brianna
Alpha Delta Pi

[justamom]

For some reason the term "Sweethearts" keeps coming to mind.

If you have a cousin or in some cases an aunt, SOME sororities look at you as a "sweetheart", not a legacy, but someone with a connection. I thought that's what my niece said about KAT.

When I wrote a rec for TX, they sent me a copy of her recruitment application form. I could SWEAR it used the term relative
yet in other cases they ask for family members. I'm gettin older and the memory is hit or miss these days!

[honeychile]

Oh, good, I'm not the only one with brain cramps today!

Alpha Delta Pi considers legacies as sisters, mother, grandmothers. But, we have a place on the rec sheet for "any other ADPi relative". With the number of half- and step-relatives, it's just become necessary.

Also, there's a subtle difference between a "regular" legacy and either an "in-house" legacy (sister/mother/grandmother belonged to that chapter) and someone whose mother may not have been an ADPi, but her 4 aunts were. At least, that's how it worked in my chapter. Does that make sense to you?

[aephi alum]

For AEPhi, you're a legacy if your sister, mother, or grandmother is an AEPhi. Step and adoptive relationships don't count for legacy purposes. But, if you have a stepmother or adoptive mother, or aunt, cousin, or other close relative who's an AEPhi, you're likely to get some special consideration.