[aephi alum]

Actually, MIT had fall formal recruitment up until four years ago.

I think it'll be a good move, as long as it doesn't happen at the same time as academic orientation and everything else, the way it used to. Under the old system, everything happened at once - during your first few days on campus, you were exposed to fraternity rush, sorority rush, independent living group rush (think coed fraternities), dorm rush (you visited all the dorms before ranking them, instead of just being preassigned somewhere), academic orientation, activities orientation (where you found out about extracurricular activities other than greek life), and the start of practice for the fall sports teams - on top of possibly being away from home and family for the first time ever.

I see they're looking at early September. That could work nicely. They'd take advantage of the fact that Monday is Labor Day and Tuesday is Registration Day, when hardly anything is scheduled.