[jwright25]

The issue of dirty rushing comes into play. If freshmen aren't allowed to join sororities in the fall, the active women have a whole semester to "court" potential members. You can ban all communication between sorority women and freshmen, but that makes them look stuck up and snotty. You'll have to find the happy medium.

ETA: Another problem that I have seen is that in the fall, chapters tend to come back well under Total, which puts them into a position of being able to COR sophomore, junior, and senior women. So then they are recruiting not one, but two semesters and constantly have new members. They will have to adapt their new member programs to be pretty much year round.

Both of these depend on campus climate and the makeup of the chapters though. If recruitment isn't that competitive, dirty rushing might not be a problem. If your Total is way low, chapters won't be falling in numbers. But that is a separate issue and brings up problems of cash flow / dues income, etc.