legacies

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In my house we take being a legacy very seriously. It’s fairy easy to search and find each sorory’s National legacy policy.

It definitely helps, especially if you have good recs.

Being a legacy helps in that you will probably make it past the first round of cuts, but remember there are lots of legacies so you need to be stellar to make it all the way to bid as being a legacy will only carry you so far.

There is also being a legacy of the sorority versus a legacy of that chapter. Just because your mom was a member of some sorority at some small chapter at some small time school doesn't give you a leg up versus being a daughter of mom who was a member of that particular chapter at Bama. It still boils down to your own resume and what you bring as a possible member.

For my chapter specifically, we love our legacies and it’s actually very hard to drop them. But when I was rushing, I knew many girls who were dropped after philanthropy by their legacy house.

At the big SEC schools, legacy is only important IF you are a legacy of that chapter and even that won't guarantee you a bid. Many legacies get cut at these schools during recruitment. There just are not enough spots for every legacy. As it has been said numerous times on this thread, ALL the sororities are good here. It is the best Greek system in the country. Be thankful if you receive a bid and give it a chance.

Legacies get a good look. Every house loses great girls that simply fall through the cracks, but that does not happen with legacies. We give legacies the curtesy of deeply reviewing their resume and making sure we identify them when they go through recruitment and treat them well. If they measure equally with another valued PNM in all other regards, then legacy might give them an advantage over those equals. BUT, if their total package is not competitive with other PNMs, they will be cut.

Being a legacy of an un-involved Mom from a different chapter doesn’t hold much weight. You are going to make cuts on your own merits. This is going to be especially true at top houses.

In contrast, You’d have to be “very troublesome” to be dismissed from a house where Mom is active as an alumnae from a Bama chapter.

For those between these extremes, like a legacy of an involved alumnae from another chapter, there a variety of possibilities depending on the house.

Not an active, but an active alumna.
The answer is....maybe.
Some houses literally have enough legacies to fill two or three new member classes. They can't take everyone. There going to take the best girls they can, whether legacies or not.
You want a nice mix of lots of legacies, but you also want "new" blood, too. The idea is to have a well-balanced membership.
I wouldn't count on being a legacy very heavily, and if you're a legacy to one of the "big 6" than have been on campus a long, long time, I wouldn't count on it t all.
The "newer" groups....might have a little more sway there. But just a little. They're not necessarily going to take everybody, either.
And if a PNM has a sister currently in a house, that's a strong connection and might influence other sororities to release her and make space for someeone more likely to pledge.

In my house you make it past IWT, cut for grades after philanthropy, and if you are not cut after sisterhood you automatically go to the top of the bid list