value of legacies

All houses give a good look at legacies but if they aren't a good fit they get cut after 1st or 2nd round. You could fill a whole pledge class with legacies!

If you wouldn't be selected for a house anyway, being a legacy won't help. But if you are asked back on the last day, being a legacy might put you closer to the top of the pref list. Or it might keep you off the list entirely. No one who is a legacy should expected any better treatment at that house. It's just one of many factors and at some houses it doesn't count for much.

The smaller a house is nationally, the more valuable their legacies are. So being a Delta or ADPi legacy isn't as valuable as being like, a Sigma legacy. The smaller national houses don't have as many legacies as larger national houses, meaning they try harder to keep them.

I know in Sigma, all legacies are auto-bids because they are so small nationally. Sigma Kappa is pretty small nationally too, legacies are a big deal. Pi Phi and ADPi legacies don't mean much because if they only took legacies, it would be their entire PC. You know?

It's alot harder for most houses to cut legacies but it's been done many times by my house for various reasons (grades, bad convo, ect)