Being the Rush Chair of my fraternity I personally feel that freshmen make poor rushees... a large percentage of them will not accept their bids because their parents say no. Upperclassmen (sophmore and up) are generally much more independant and will join regardless of parental funds, and are much better suited to be good pledges and brothers since they are more involved and established on campus. Plus most people that drop out of school do so freshman year. we don't lke loosing brothers.

However, this does not discredit the fact that they are a HUGE pool from which to draw, and loosing this makes it really hard for greek organizations to recruit adequate numbers.

Orientation is definately too early to get them anyways. And I think it's the same here at RIT... tour guides, or volunteers at orientation aren't allowed to recruit... also IFC doesn't formally start rush 'till a few days AFTER orientation. We can however wear letters if we're just manning a booth or something. ::shrug::