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Does Listing Legacy Information on Your Social Resume Help or Hurt You?

Sorority life has been around for hundreds of years. It is a tradition unlike any other that you can share with friends, family, and people you meet along the way. Each sorority experience is unique, and although times have changed, a legacy will always be special. Even if you grew up around loved ones who raved that their sorority was the best of them all, when going through recruitment, having an open mind is essential to finding YOUR best fit.

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Rec Letters 101: How to Gather Letters of Recommendation for Sorority Recruitment

Y'all, we are SO excited to introduce you to this amazing resource today. We've shared information about how to gather letters of recommendation for sorority recruitment before, but never quite like this... Say hello to our 100% FREE pre-recruitment workbook: Rec Letters 101! The heart behind everything we do at SororityPackets.com is to help simplify and de-mystify the sorority recruitment process as much as we possibly can. We have blogged about the difference between Letters of Support and Recruitment Information Forms before, but because we know how much organization the rec letter gathering process requires, we decided to take our information-sharing a step further by putting together a complete workbook for you guys! Inside this FREE 14-page workbook you will find:...

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What is COB...and is it right for me?

Have you ever heard the term "COB" and wondered what it meant pertaining to sorority recruitment? Wonder no more! We've got the scoop directly from collegiate blogger Caroline Hudson, who served as VP Membership for Delta Gamma at the University of Alabama! Keep reading to learn what COB is, who is eligible to go through COB, and what to expect from this form of sorority recruitment.

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What is an Alumnae Panhellenic?

Submitted photo via @kaseyellrich on Instagram | Featured: AOII Oklahoma State University The rumors are true: One of the best ways you can begin the sorority recruitment process is to attend an informational meeting hosted by an Alumnae Panhellenic. What's an Alumnae Panhellenic, you ask? Let's take a look at the way the dictionary breaks it down and I think you'll start to get the picture. Pan·hel·len·ic: "All Greek" (So in other words, when people say "It's all Greek to me," they mean that literally.) Really though: An Alumnae Panhellenic is an organization affiliated with the National Panhellenic Conference, or NPC. Have you heard of Kappa Kappa Gamma, or Pi Beta Phi, or Delta Gamma? These sororities and 23 other houses all...

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What is a LOS, a Rec Letter, and a RIF? How to get letters of recommendation for sorority recruitment!

It’s time for another installment of Rush 101! This blog post is specifically for those of you who are still in the process of gathering Letters of Recommendation/Letters of Support for sorority recruitment. While we know that a lot of you registered with your local alumnae Panhellenic organization in order to obtain Rec Letters, we're also guessing that several of you are managing the process + sending out your Recruitment Information Packets entirely on your own this summer. With that in mind, we thought we'd share a few tips for rounding up recommendations! First things first…let’s break down the difference between a few commonly-confused terms: Letter of Support (LOS), Letter of Recommendation (Rec Letter), and Recruitment Information Form (RIF). *LETTER OF SUPPORT: A...

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Hi, I'm Crystal DelaHoz, a senior portrait photographer based in the Dallas-Fort Worth area of Texas. I launched SororityPackets.com in the spring of 2016 after consulting with countless senior girls and their mommas about the sorority recruitment process. This blog + our entire brand exists to guide you to and through sorority recruitment...no stress required!

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