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As an incoming freshman pre-nursing major, I was told by my orientation leader and the academic advisor that "nursing majors don't pledge"-- since it was a competitive entry program (based upon your first year grades) and would be "too demanding" since our classes and clinicals were at the medical school, not on main campus. I've always been a very stubborn person, and if you tell me I can't do something, I'm likely to say "says who?" and do it anyway. Not only did I pledge, but I made it my mission thereafter to prove that one could be a nursing student, get good grades and be active in a GLO (served on the Executive Council 3 years). OK, so sleep was an optional experience my junior year (I paid for my dues by working 11-7 on weekends... didn't do much for the social life but the $$ was good).
In any event, I think there's a difference between laying out what a realistic time commitment for an academic program might be vs a blanket "thou shalt not pledge". When I was an orientation leader, I could honestly say how much time we spent in clinicals (time that at that time was not given academic credit so for a 5 credit hour course, we had 4 hours lecture, 4 hours lab and 8 hours at the hospital) and then let the student decide if they really could do it.
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