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I think Spring/deferred recruitment is GREAT for those schools who have chapters that paint on a very lovely facade for recruitment week, then show their true (nasty) colors for the rest of the semester (c'mon...you know there are those chapters out there...we've all seen an example of them).
Having the freshmen wait until Spring to accept bids gives them a chance to see the true colors of each chapter. Either a chapter can't maintain the facade for a whole semester, or they maintain the facade and wind up actually changing for the better in the process (because the new behaviors become habit).
I'm all for having a "structured" recruitment period each semester, with the same rules for each. Partially Structured Recruitment Style actually gives campuses the opportunity to do just that. And I also think that for the larger campuses who do recruitment before classes start...if it works, keep doing it. (As stated in another thread) girls who choose to go to a university like that expect that to happen. Girls who don't feel comfortable with all of that "big school" hype probably won't attend that school anyway.
I wonder what it would be like if freshmen could accept bids in November, start their NM process (a "lite" version of it), and then initiate in the spring when they have grades (and those who don't have grades don't initiate). You could still make the NM process a total of 8 school weeks (not counting finals week), they would still have a chance to acclimate themselves to campus and could get to know the groups and the culture.
PsychTau
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