At my school (small, private, liberal arts, Greek-dominated) pledging was a little less than a semester (10 weeks maybe?) but there was only one pledge class per year. MAYBE one or two fraternities might take one or two guys before or after rush (we had rush second semester), but it wasn't common. I have heard some state schools have both a fall (formal, large) rush and a spring (smaller, informal) rush, and that the spring pledges are looked down on a little, but this is all hearsay. This is something that could easily vary from school to school (and the flipside, no matter which way you write it, a bunch of Greeks will watch it and say, "Pfft, that's not how it works! These guys clearly did no research!")
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