33girl-
I did read your previous posts and feel that they are "right on"! So I would like to apologize if it did not seem that I had.
In any case, you posted: "I said at many universities that have first semester rush, you DON'T have a choice if you want to look at all the sororities (and have them look at you). It's do it right away or have your choices severely curtailed. That's the problem."
From a male (IFC) point of view, this sounds more like a Panhellenic issue and not a Greek life issue per say.
By the way, you wrote that Clarion used to have first semester rush for fraternities and deferred rush for sororities. Is that still the case? Do you feel it "worked"? Were there any issues with it?