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Originally posted by 33girl
I'm sorry that you considered learning about your sorority a "waste of time" when measured against a lifetime of sisterhood.  That is part of what the semester of pledging is about, to help you learn time management.
As far as pledge exams being hazing, I completely disagree.
You need to have some sort of yardstick to show whether each individual has tried to learn about the sorority. That's when you find out who the rest of the pledge class carried for 6-8 weeks.
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I completely agree with both of these statements, applying them to a semester pledgeship. I'm pretty sure it's the same at other chapters, but here, we have a point system, of which New member exams are a significant portion of the points, and Grades make up the largest portion (40%), and that determines roll number. And roll number in turn determines the order of room choice, and who gets a parking spot in the lot, and numerous other things.
Obviously you hope that you rush quality people, that you've made the proper cuts about things you found in rush apps, that you found people who are friendly etc. but in the end you need to determine if that person is really what your organization stands for. Especially for sororities, since new members don't live in, it would seem that a longer, or more rigorous pledgship would allow the most accurate way to truly test the individual. Also if the pledgship is rigorous--well then the following semesters will become far easier as things like new member tests are no longer around to subtract from study time.