Are legacies/recs even important anymore??

I was in a top tier house at Lincoln and being a legacy is almost a shoe in unless you have a major QR. also a rec keeps you around 1 day pass the initial open house round and that’s it. I think thetas legacy rule is they have to drop you that early if they are going to. Our house had to drop day before pref day which is almost worse in my opinion. If you were a legacy and you made it to pref round you were in. I also had recs to almost every house. Or the worth it ones at least and I don’t feel it really changed much. You were probably dropped for grades or QR if you were a legacy.

All houses deal with that a little differently, but from my experience on both sides of recruitment is that letters of rec are not gonna be the reason why you do or don’t get asked back. When it comes to legs, if they aren’t dropped after the first two rounds, they will be getting a bid. If a legacy (or any PNM) doesn’t meet our gpa cutoff, they will be dropped after round 1. When I was going through rush as a freshman, my roommate was a legacy to 3 houses. 2 of them dropped her, and she ended up in the third. Honestly recruitment is a weird, messy process, but in my house, it mostly just comes down to how good your application looks and how well the person who rushes you thinks you’ll fit in.