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Delayed recruitment would absolutely ruin sorority life because the downside is worse than anything that happens now. It's never like you describe, where pnm's just stand back and observe sororities and then make informed choices based on GPA and leadership etc during rush. Talk to any girl who goes to a school with this kind of recruitment. It's all about them hearing others' opinions based on the superficial stuff you are talking about. At these schools, the pnm's become far more exposed and influenced by the "gossip, social, popularity, and looks" you are talking about directly from people, and most of it comes from fraternity boys and rampant pre-rushing from sorority members. When the girls interested in joining a sorority can't have a sorority home their first semester, they inevitably attach themselves to fraternity guys for their social life - parties and game days etc - and meeting sorority members. The frat boys tell them what sororities they think are best, based of course on looks and hotness and party-worthiness while denegrating the other sororities based on the same fratty lens. So they are essentially rushing the pnm's and having an influence they shouldn't because of delayed recruitment. And the sorority members meet some pnm's and rush them hard all semester. They have their favorite pnm's picked out before recruitment and the pnm's also have picked out where they only want to join. There is much less open-mindedness on the part of sororities or pnm's when recruitment comes around, everyone already has their mind made up and there are far more drops when pnm's don't get their top choices. They've wanted them all semester as opposed to a few days in recruitment and their minds are totally shut at this point. This is how reputations get cemented in people's minds and a downward spiral happens. Sorority membership drops off across the board. Do you really think GPA, campus involvement, awards, sisterhood, etc are what pnm's are thinking about at this point? Please. Delayed recruitment is a terrible idea and one that every single national sorority will discourage, if not fight.