how long is your pledge period?

[sigtau305]

our pledge period usually goes between 6-8 weeks

[tunatartare]

At my school pledging goes for 6-8 weeks. There's a certain date by which pledges have to be in by. My sorority doesn't have anything during midterms week or the week before so that pledging won't get in the way of our grades.

[Buttonz]

on the GLO, but from what I have seen and heard the basic is 6 + weeks....I know for me it was 6 weeks, I know of a local on campus that is at least 8 weeks but can go as many as 16, and other GLO's are around 6-8 weeks or so...and no pledging during finals (if you arent in by then). spring break, and mid terms the GLO's are usally able to work around mid term schedule...because midterms can last up to a month depending on the class schdules

[ShaunaF01]

Our pledge program can be anywhere from 3-6 weeks I believe. We've had pledge periods of 3 weeks up to 7 weeks, but nothing longer than that. There are organizations on my campus however, that go from 10 days to 9 weeks.

[RoseNWhiteLion]

Our national pledge education book has it organized over 8 weeks, but our campus has a 5 week cap on pledging...not that it always gets followed on campus :-p

My chapter's is 6 weeks but I think Nationals says 6-8 weeks. So ours is pretty typical.

The other chapters on my campus new member periods last:

Tri-Sigma: 6 weeks (I think)
Chi Omega: 10-12 weeks
ADPi: 4 weeks
DZ: 6 weeks

[dzandiloo]

Originally posted by ztawinthropgirl
DZ: 6 weeks

Most chapters of DZ have begun using the new National New Member Program, which is 10 weeks...I believe the only situation where a chapter does not have 10 weeks is if the campus mandates a shorter period.

[aephi alum]

My local's pledge period was 4 weeks.
AEPhi's program is 6-8 weeks.

The other sororities at my school also now initiate in 6-8 weeks - though during my freshman year, Sigma Kappa held for grades so their pledge period was around 5 months, and Theta initiated after 4 weeks.

[ADPiSAI]

last night, somebody was talking about how it's supposed to be 6... I just figured out that that's how long mine was, but one of those weeks was spring break, so it seemed shorter.

Thanks for the correction dzandiloo! :-)

[Rio_Kohitsuji]

Rio has a rule that the pledge period can only last 5 weeks. But, of course this isn't always followed.

TKE: 5 or longer
ASPhi: 4-5

ZOX: 3-5
LoPsi: 2-3
XOA: 5 or longer
DTheta: 4-5
AMB: 5 or longer when they have a pledge class..which is very rare

[lawryn]

mine was 3 weeks long but typically its 6 weeks or so ours was just made faster so that we could have another pledge class go through this semester i'm soooo happy to be through, it was sooo worth it

[TexasOphiA]

Ours is 10-12 weeks long.

[SirHornyToad]

Ours is 3 weeks, but sometimes can go a little longer if there are special circumstances, but the 3 weeks are really intense, our school changed the rules so we could only pledge people during the first 3 weeks of january, so basically we had to take our 9 week program and cram it all into 3 weeks, its pretty intense and packed, but its fun. And then they are rookies for a year.

Its wierd though being active and seeing it from the other side, i swear to god 90% of the time we do more work then the pledges.

[Buttonz]

I heaard that in NY State a pledge process of over 9 weeks is considered hazing...dose anyone know anthing about this?