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Originally posted by adpiucf
My impression: you have three open spots now and will have an even larger deficit in the fall due to a large graduating senior class this spring.
If you have already filled the three spots, get permission from your regional rep to speed up the new member education period and initate the members before end of semester.
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Um no.
There's nothing to make NMs feel more out of sync with the sorority than to shorten their pledge period and give the impression to the rest of the sorority that they've gotten a "pass" because of when they signed their bids.
And if you have to speed up their pledge period just because you're afraid they might not initiate, are they really the sort of women you even want in your sorority? They deserve the same amount of time to make the final decision as to whether they want to initiate that everyone else had.
But back to the original question.
If you have three women who the majority of the chapter knows well...who have mentioned pledging before but cringed at the idea of having to go through formal rush...who are basically "honorary sisters" - by all means, bid them now, start pledging, and hold them over to initate them in the fall. (I personally think it would be very inspiring and uplifting to initiate them while you are planning/practicing for rush - it would get everyone's minds back to what rushing is really all about and be a positive boost for everyone.)
BUT if you don't have anyone like that in mind, and you would be starting from scratch as far as COB is concerned - it's not worth the logistics and the idea of shortening pledging.