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First, we are required to give our new members their initiation date when they receive their bids. I was under the impression that this was not just AST but NPC. (We were the only NPC, so I'm not totally sure) It was ment to get at hazing issues of withholding initiation.
This is how our recruitment worked. We could rush, but not bid first sememster first years. We would start rush in September and have events through the fall. If we had enough soph-sr interest, we would try and do a class in late October with their initiation right before fall finals. After winter break we would bid the first years (sometimes have an event or two before they went out) with initiation before spring break. Around the time of their initiation, we could usually manage a second class, there was about a week or two of overlap where both classes were pledges. The second spring class was initiated before spring finals. Then to complicate it, if our end of the year events were going well, we would try to get bids out and pin another class which would be held over the summer and initiate around fall break.
We had our strongest classes from the last two classes suprisingly. The biggest issue is keeping the summer hold-overs interested and connected because they are new. Then you also had to start the year with tons of energy so they would feel swept up and excited about it all. This was an issue for some because they had three months at home where people were not totally supportive of GLOs and so some did change their minds. This was the same issue we had over winter break when we could bid first years right before break but not start classes until after break. We have the 6-8 week requirement, but that requirement is 6-8 weeks of classes. for example, spring break didn't count as a week, because you can't have NM ed classes while everyone is gone.
We had some issues with women and grades, but our school was not always supportive of helping us with information. We could not have taken our nms to their profs and asked about grades, that would have been keboshed pretty quickly. We had to trust them to give us their correct GPA and then we only found out the actual once they were members and signed the grade release form. It was archaic, but even the grade release was a huge step for us to get.
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