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Originally Posted by EE-BO
Sure- and it does happen. When I was an active we had a particularly good rush one summer and ended up taking almost 40 pledges instead of the usual 25 or so we would normally take in the fall.
Worked out pretty good, but it had its drawbacks. Those guys ended up being a huge voting block in the chapter and that created some friction- especially when they were upperclassmen and held almost all the major offices in the chapter.
Sometimes it can work for the better to have a mega-sized pledge class come along, but usually only if you are in growth mode or if fundamental change is needed in the chapter. If things are running along on course however, it can be problematic.
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Oh okay then, that makes sense. I thought it was just arbitrary. I agree about not taking too many, one of the groups here that always had big pledge classes was hit harder than the rest of us during a one or two year dry spell of interested guys, so instead of their of usual 5 fall/ 10 spring class size, one spring after like 3 semester of only 3 - 5 pledges a semester they put bids out on i forget how many people, but they wound up with 19 pledges, which was more than the rest of the chapter minus graduating seinors. I think that pledge class held every position as sophmores until they graduated.