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Originally Posted by lucgreek
Short answer: If you have gone through a ceremony or ritual that you cannot openly discuss to non-members of your fraternity, you were probably initiated . . . .
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Not necessarily. At all.
While the pledging ceremonies/associate member ceremonies/whatever-they-may-be-called-ceremonies of some fraternities are open, not all are. In fact, without doing a study of it, I'd guess that the majority of pledging ceremonies are secret. So the mere fact that one has been through a ceremony that cannot be discussed with non-members doesn't mean one has likely been initiated.
And given that the OP is a member of a colony that will be chartered this spring and said the colony members become "official brothers" when the colony is chartered, he probably hasn't been initiated yet. Again, I haven't done a comparative study, but it is common in my experience that colony members are not initiated until chartering.