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I go to Stanford, and we have extremely deferred recruitment. We are one of the few privates on the quarter system, and our rush is at the beginning of spring quarter (first weeks of April). The advantage is that you establish yourself at the university before beginning Greek life. Also I think rush numbers are higher, just because people aren't as worried about whether they will be able to balance academics with Greek life, since they already know what is demanded of them, academically. The down side is that dirty rushing is more prevalent, since GLOs have essentially a whole year to scout out the frosh class. Also tent talk is a huge problem. Since the freshman have been around for so long, they know all the reputations of the different institutions. It leads to a lot of girls going through rush thinking "I want to be a _____ or a ________, and if I don't get it, I will drop out." And a lot of girls do end up dropping out of recruitment, which is sad.
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