legacies, please read!!

Legacies, my biggest advice for recruitment is do not overlook your legacy house just because it might be "ranked" a few houses lower than that "higher ranked" house that you think you could get a bid in. Most importantly, there is nothing like sharing that bond with your mom, sister, grandma, whoever makes you a legacy. You don't want to be the girl sitting on the front steps balling her eyes out on initiation day because your mom is inside pinning your new or childhood best friend and you will never have that chance (yes, this has happened). Secondly, if you think that higher ranked house will give you better opportunities for leadership and school positions such as SGA it probably won't. For the most part legacies are always well known throughout houses if you chose to pledge them, so you already have a leg up than if you were in a house that no more than 5 girls knew your name before it was read on the bid list. Lastly, sororities here at UA are so dang large (most with pledge classes 150+, so 400 girls in the house) so there are no real stereotypes. Yes, the main "it" girls that houses choose to mainly show on their social media most of the time do fit that mold, but almost half the house may not. There are girls who love Jesus, girls who love to party every single night, and everything in-between in EVERY SINGLE HOUSE!!! You can take the same girl and put her in every single house and she will have friends. Yes, overall there are houses she would fit in more than others as a whole (these are the drastically house differences, not the higher ranked letters house who is almost identical to your legacy house instance that I am talking about), there is always other people just like her. It is your job to make your friends. You're not magically just going to have 400 new friends in any house without putting in a little effort. So just because you think you may not fit in your legacy house because of their Instagram or one girl you met during IWT does not mean you won't find a place and be happy. Don't ruin that family tradition just to be in a slightly higher ranked house in someone else's eyes. Not everyone can be in the same exact house, that is why there are so many. Some time ago someone decided to rank houses because some people just have to live off that ego boost that they are feeding themselves. But guess what, rankings NEVER change! The old row moms on this website are always going to say their house is better than the very similar house that is new row. This is no one else's rush or life besides your's and you are the one who is going to have to live with the decision. There are no second chances once you are initiated so make sure you make the right one, especially if you are deciding between your legacy house and a similar house that is either higher ranked or old vs new row.