A "Pledge" or "New Member" is defined as any student who has entered into membership within a fraternity or sorority prior to initiation. Each fraternity's pledge process, or "New Member Education Program" varies a great deal, but most are designed to teach the fraternity's values, history, and traditions to the new members so that when the time comes they will be ready to become initiated brothers.

Kappa Sigma has a specifically designed quarterly schedule where a "Brotherhood Development Coordinator" will teach our pledges through the "Brotherhood Development Program," or BDP for short. Our BDP consists of week-to-week events and excercises that revolve around the history and values of Kappa Sigma and the Greek System as a whole. Every member can attest that while they were pledges, they had some of the greatest times of their college careers.