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Originally Posted by carnation
We didn't forget! But those girls were usually waaaay out of the ballpark. Now there are far too many legacies rushing for sororities to take them all.
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I have trouble with this statement in its many forms. Not to single out carnation, but I see it a lot.
I thought I understood RFM.
Quote = # women at prefs/# sororities, right?
Logically, then, no such thing as 'can't take them all'.
Even one chapter. Granted, I don't understand sorority life at chapters of 200+ members, either, but when your pledge classes are over 100 women, is it really mathematically impossible to pledge all your legacies? Has it ever happened that more legacies than the chapter could take listed that chapter as #1?
I also understand not wanting a pledge class that is all legacies. Or even a majority legacy.
Now, as a sister of a 20-woman chapter at a geeky private school in the 70s, and an alumna who recommended my daughter not rush at Texas, I recognize I'm out of the mainstream. What I fail to understand is how that changes the math.
Newbies who come to GC and make a statement like "there were too many women for the sororities to take them all" are rapidly corrected. Why is this legacy statement promulgated?