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at both my current school (a small college in the NE) and the school i transfered from (a larger southern school), we only hold formal recruitment in the spring semester. freshmen are encouraged to settle in, adjust to the new academics, and make friends before joining a fraternity or sorority. i am currently the panhellenic vp recruitment at my school and fully support delayed rush. it really allows students the opportunity to join less time consuming clubs, meet a lot of people, and focus on their studies. even at my former school, where greek life was huge, it was important that all students had friends outside of their chapter and understood the time commitment college is before undertaking the time commitment of new member period. we do, however, allow first semester transfers to participate in COR if chapters are offering it in the fall semester. greek organizations at my school prides themselves on maintaining higher average gpas than the average gpa of independents. we maintain this by setting a gpa requirement for students interesting in joining a fraternity or sorority. with no college experience, we would not be able to do this.
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