When I was a new member, we were "strongly discouraged" from wearing letters. Even though our nationals said it was okay, my particular chapter, like every chapter at my school, had adopted the practice of waiting until initiation. None of us had a problem with this, since that was the same w/ all GLO on my campus, so we didn't question it. But the same week I got initiated, our headquarters told us how much they disliked that we prevented us from letting our new members wear them, so we encouraged the class after mine to do so. It's hard, because no one else on campus does it, and some older sisters resented it, but its actually allowed us to have new members focus on more important things after initiation - like wearing our crest.
