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Some of the reasons for not taking juniors may have disappeared with the earlier initiations. When I was in college (back in the olden days) our chapter had a limit on the number of juniors we would take during rush - only about 6 or 7 out of a pledge class of about 55. Part of the rationale was that the pledges would not be initiated until February of the spring semester (we had fall rush), so a junior would only have a little over one full year as an initiated member. Now, however, since pledges are initiated during the fall semester, that rationale has disappeared.
I do have to add that one of our junior pledges was elected president of our chapter the very next year, which was very unusual in our big traditional chapter, as every president in previous years had pledged as a freshman.
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