Spring Recruitment vs. Fall

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But doesn't a spring recruitment mean you get the people who are truly interested and not just the ones who are "t-shirt" members?

And wouldn't it lessen the burden of the really large chapters?

And wouldn't it justify the assertion of the smaller chapters that a smaller chapter has a stronger membership?

All defferred recruitment does is remove the unsure members and leave you with members who have one semester of grades and acclimation to campus under their belt-- who are serious about Greek Life. Isn't that better than a first semester student who isn't sure about anything?

Just throwing it out there--- I came from a campus with fall recruitment, and a campus with exceptionally large chapters, where we were always begging for sorority expansion because our membership was nearing 200 members per chapter. I think in fall recruitment you tend to get a lot more people to show up, but 4 years later, how many of that new member class are still there? And of those that are, how many are truly active members?