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33girl
I agree with you in the case of a school where many pledges are likely to flunk out first term. Such schools do exist, unfortunately, but they are usually state schools required to admit any state high school graduate. Schools with high academic standards do not need deferred rush, especially when chapters can help with first term academics. Deferred rush is almost always "imposed". What usually happens is that the administration pushes IFC/Panhellenic to change their rush structure ("Either you do it or the faculty will impose harsher rules", or, "We want you to take responsible action to demonstrate to us that you're worthy of being here", or somesuch), and then the school can cast their eyes piously Heavenward and say, "Gosh, we didn't make these rules; the students themselves decided to do this."
33girl is right again - as she so often is - about a freshman missing her chance to join if she doesn't take a pin the first semester. I'd blame Panhellenic to an extent: my campus has almost 40,000 students and only 14 PanHel sororities. If there were an adequate number of sororities, more women would be able to find spots after the first term.
I just feel that deferred rush is inherently an imposed condition - where would a Greek system voluntarily (truely voluntarily) adopt such a restrictive system? Rush rules are things that keep us from being as good as we can be.
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