how long is your pledge period?
 

when I initiated ours was 10 weeks, but our IHQ is pushing a 4-1-4 program which means that our pledges initiate on the 5th week now... it is helpful, because we can initiate 2 or even 3 pledge classes a semester, but we don't even get to see mid-term grades before they are supposed to initiate... we've done it for a year now, and our grades haven't dropped off noticeably, but they have tapered slightly, because we have initiated a person or two each semester that ended up failing the majority of their classes.

We have a 4-6 week program for our new members. However, on our campus we can't pledge first semester first-year students, so we do get to see grades, that probably helps a bit.

slamit, the 4-1-4 sysem sounds really interesting, but i'm not quite sure I understand it.

Are you saying four weeks of pre-initiation education, then initiation week, the four weeks of post initiation education?

Our candidate program lasts 1 semester and generally they are fully initated shortly after we get grades back (not fully initiated unless their GPA is above all-men's average).

The pledge period for Beta Sigma Phi is a minimum of 6 MONTHS. However, a pledge has complete membership privileges upon acceptance of the invitation, so although I am certainly anxious to earn "Ritual of Jewels" status, the long pledge period is bareable.

the 4-1-4 is supposed to be 4 weeks of pre-initiation education, I-week, and then 4 more weeks of eductaion... the latter 4 rarely end up being a full four weeks though... at least for us so far, we are still working out the kinks... the thing is, is we have pretty much crammed the old 10 week program into 4 weeks, so that we don't have a whole lot left to teach them after initiation... Like I said, the drawbacks are that we initiate people before mid-terms, and then hope they make grades, we also don't have much time to get to know the guys.

how long is your pledge period
 

Alpha Phi Omega's National Pledging Standards state that the pledge period should be 6 to 10 weeks long (its up to each chapter to determine how long their program is). It begins with the Pledge Ceremony and ends with the Induction Ceremony when the Pledges become Brothers.

The Chapter I work with has a 8 week program of pledge training sessions between the 2 ceremonies. I find that that works best for what we need to cover and gives the pledges the time to complete their requirements. Because our Rush is after Greek Rush, we start our pledge program shortly afterwards, and usually wrap up a few weeks before the semester is over.

Some schools dictate a shorter period. Because of that, those chapters have a shorter pledge period.

Hope this helps

Alpha Theta Chi's pledge education program usually lasts 8 weeks. Sometimes it is shorter, sometimes it is longer. It all depends upon the number of pledges and their progress through the pledge period.

Delta Phi Epsilon's new member program is to be no longer than 6 weeks, and honestly, it's plenty of time. As someone said earlier, it allows for a second NM class if need be too!

I dont think that we at BSC have a specific period..but I do know that ours lasted 9 weeks (even though it felt like SOOOOO much longer) and the longest I think, was my "Mom's" class. They had 14 weeks. Crazy I know. :p

According to our General Regulations for Chapters, '[t]he period of probationary membership shall not be less than four weeks, nor more than three calendar months, or in accordance with the policies of the sheltering institution in consultation with the national staff." Within those limits, each chapter can make its own decisions. In my experience, six-eight weeks is common.

Our program is 8-10 weeks. It usually depends on what is going on that semester for initiation.

The school sets a certain date for pledges to be in by- but no one really pays attention to this rule. The longest pledge period that I know of to date was this semester- they pledged 12 weeks. The shortest was a few years ago- 4 weeks.

I think for ADPi it's a 4-6 week Alpha period (other ADPi's, correct me if I'm wrong!...it's been a while :) ) At our university freshmen couldn't join a sorority until the second semster, so we had mid-terms AND final semester grades to look at when women were going through recruitment.

Ours is 10-27 weeks long. It depends on the pledge class.

our pledge period usually goes between 6-8 weeks

At my school pledging goes for 6-8 weeks. There's a certain date by which pledges have to be in by. My sorority doesn't have anything during midterms week or the week before so that pledging won't get in the way of our grades.

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on the GLO, but from what I have seen and heard the basic is 6 + weeks....I know for me it was 6 weeks, I know of a local on campus that is at least 8 weeks but can go as many as 16, and other GLO's are around 6-8 weeks or so...and no pledging during finals (if you arent in by then). spring break, and mid terms the GLO's are usally able to work around mid term schedule...because midterms can last up to a month depending on the class schdules

Our pledge program can be anywhere from 3-6 weeks I believe. We've had pledge periods of 3 weeks up to 7 weeks, but nothing longer than that. There are organizations on my campus however, that go from 10 days to 9 weeks.

Our national pledge education book has it organized over 8 weeks, but our campus has a 5 week cap on pledging...not that it always gets followed on campus :-p

My chapter's is 6 weeks but I think Nationals says 6-8 weeks. So ours is pretty typical.

The other chapters on my campus new member periods last:

Tri-Sigma: 6 weeks (I think)
Chi Omega: 10-12 weeks
ADPi: 4 weeks
DZ: 6 weeks

Most chapters of DZ have begun using the new National New Member Program, which is 10 weeks...I believe the only situation where a chapter does not have 10 weeks is if the campus mandates a shorter period.

My local's pledge period was 4 weeks.
AEPhi's program is 6-8 weeks.

The other sororities at my school also now initiate in 6-8 weeks - though during my freshman year, Sigma Kappa held for grades so their pledge period was around 5 months, and Theta initiated after 4 weeks.

last night, somebody was talking about how it's supposed to be 6... I just figured out that that's how long mine was, but one of those weeks was spring break, so it seemed shorter.

Thanks for the correction dzandiloo! :-)

Rio has a rule that the pledge period can only last 5 weeks. But, of course this isn't always followed.

TKE: 5 or longer
ASPhi: 4-5

ZOX: 3-5
LoPsi: 2-3
XOA: 5 or longer
DTheta: 4-5
AMB: 5 or longer when they have a pledge class..which is very rare

mine was 3 weeks long but typically its 6 weeks or so ours was just made faster so that we could have another pledge class go through this semester :D i'm soooo happy to be through, it was sooo worth it

Ours is 10-12 weeks long.

Ours is 3 weeks, but sometimes can go a little longer if there are special circumstances, but the 3 weeks are really intense, our school changed the rules so we could only pledge people during the first 3 weeks of january, so basically we had to take our 9 week program and cram it all into 3 weeks, its pretty intense and packed, but its fun. And then they are rookies for a year.

Its wierd though being active and seeing it from the other side, i swear to god 90% of the time we do more work then the pledges.

Alpha Sigma Alpha's is 8 weeks long.

I pledged in August and was initiated in January , 1 full semester pledgeship.

Our member canidate period is usually about 8 weeks long. However, if a new member doesn't have a college GPA, we don't activate her until she does, meaning if she is a freshman she cannot become a full member until after grades come out fall semester.

Last semester when I was a pledge, we first pledged at the beginning of February and were initiated at the end of April, so almost 3 months for us. However, we were the first to get initiated before the school year got out. Usually, fall pledges get initated right when we get back from winter break and spring pledges normally get initiated when we get back from summer break.

Phi Sig's NM period is supposed to be 4 -6 weeks... this semester our new member Ed. decided to plan it out at 4 weeks.... we all thought it was too short.... so next semester's class will be a 6 week long period.

When I pledged Alpha Phi Omega, I think my pledge period was eight weeks, maybe ten. This was ten years ago so it could have changed since then.

APO National Policy (National Pledge Standards) is that is should be between 6 to 10 weeks. It's up to each chapter to determine its own length, within those guidelines. Some chapters, due to university policy, have to make theirs shorter.

The chapter I work with (and used to be pledgemaster for) has an 8 week pledge period of 8 pledge training classes, bookended by the pledge and initiation ceremonies, which bring the pledge period to 10 weeks. Trying to go shorter doesn't work, as we have to pile too much info on each class.

As stated before, Phi Sig's policy is 4 weeks, and no longer than 6 weeks if needed. We initiated a class in the beginning of October (the ladies that went through formal recruitment) and in 2 weeks we are going to be initiating another groups of ladies. I personally like the shorter time period becuase it is less stressful on the ladies and we have room for 3 classes a semester if they are held right after one another!
I know that one sorority at my school tkaes all semester and it just doesnt seem fair.

Our's is 8 weeks. I think our Panhellenic has said that it can't be longer than 8 weeks. I think the only other sorority on our campus that initiates at 8 weeks is Pi Phi (but I could be wrong). All the rest have a 6 week program.

KD
 

Kappa Delta's new member program is six weeks long!!