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Originally posted by madmax
If COB is continuous up until the sorority reaches total then why do the sororities wait until after the standard rush period to start COB?
Couldn't they basically start COB before the standard rush period? That way they could beat the larger houses to the punch. The larger sororities won't be able to rush because they were already at total from the previous semester.
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This varies from school to school.
At Valparaiso, formal recruitment isn't until January, and they can't recruit freshmen until them, but the sororities will usually have the second or third week in September as a mass COB event-- every sorority has a week full of parties and hang-outs and events in order to replace their graduated seniors. But it's easy to target upperclasswomen before recruitment begins in January.
At other schools, formal recruitment starts in mid-August, before classes start and before there is any chance to meet any women! So you can't COB until after formal recruitment anyway.
Even with upperclasswomen, sometimes they'd prefer to go through formal recruitment to get a shot at becoming an ABC, if ABC always makes quota and doesn't have to COB. Only if they don't match ABC will they consider other sororities. This can happen whether or not they went through recruitment as freshmen.
Oh, and we can't do COB during formal recruitment.