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Whatever you do, DO NOT defer rush/pledging.
It is a delayed death sentence to any system.
My school experimented with my fraternity doing Deferred rush and pledging in 1990.
We were successfull, but that was because the system didn't have time to take full effect. Due to our success all of the Fraternities and Sororities at my school switched over to winter pledging.
We went from averaging 10-20 people pledge classes and 30-40 actives in each organization, to having one organization with over 20 actives now, and last year all of the fraternities total had 12 pledges.
A key reason for having rush be early in the year is that you can get the freshmen before they have formed thier own cliques and social groups. If you already have a ton of friends it makes it tougher to want to join a frat or soror because all of your other friends will tell you how bad of an idea it is etc etc etc.
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