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i went to one of the mentioned schools that has deferred recruitment and in our case it defiitely didn't hurt numbers. we had an incredibly competitive recruitment with quota being somewhere in the 50's every year. yes, you did have certain perceptions and ideas going into recruitment since you were on campus for a semester already, but my opinion is if you are basing your recruitment and what chapter you want to be in on what you may have or have not heard then you are rushing for the wrong reasons. personally, i'm glad we had deferred recruitment. i went to a school far away from home only knowing one other person on campus who was a senior at the time, and if i would have been thrown into rush like that i would have crumbled. i can be a shy person and having that semester to grow a little and get used to surroundings and situations that i have never been in before definitely helped me during recruitment. now i'm not saying that deferred recruitment is the way to go, but for some schools and some people it is a better option.
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