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at some schools, formal recruitment is more structured, with a set schedule for the first party round.at the information session all the pnms would be divided into recruitment groups. you might play some icebreaker games and then your recruitment counselor would explain how it is going to work and she would go over the schedule for first party round. the next morning you would all meet your r.c. and begin visiting the sororities. you have a list, or your recruitment counselor has the list and herds your whole group to a specific sorority house at a specific time, and then to the next one on the list and so forth and so on. you would visit all the sororities during the first round of parties. after first party round is over, the sororities would decide to whom they wish to extend an invitation to their second party and they turn in their invitations to panhellenic. you would meet with your recruitment group and your counselor and she would discreetly distribute everyones invitations. you would go thru your invitations privately and either accept or decline the invitations. because everyone in your recruitment group maight not be invited to every second round party, each pnm will receive their own schedule of parties and what thime they are to be a what house, and each will go independently to those parties. after second round, the sororities will again decide who they are going to ask to third party rounds and then you will be able to accept or decline the invitations. this whittling down process continues until after the preferential party round. if the particular school has a maximum of three pref parties, you have the possibility to attend all three, providing you are still getting the maximum number of invitations after each round. after pref, round, you would rank the sororities you visited that night, first choice, second, third choice. meanwhile the sororities are busy arranging their bid lists and hopefully your first choice has you on their first bid list.

during informal, you most likely would register with panhellenic, so that sororities participating in informal would know you are interested and available. some colleges have you visit each participating group the first night and then the sororities issue their own invitations, either via mouth, email, phone or a real handwritten invitation. other colleges just give the list of interested and available women to each participating sorority and the sororities contract them at their own discretion. usually there is a window of time when informal should be completed. however if a chapter is not at total, theoritically they could continue meeting girls and issuing bids until they reached campus total.

please understand that this is just a gemeral explaination of how it works and that on your campus it might be different. your best bet would be to stop by the panhellenic office and get the lowdown from them, or if you know any girls in sororities you could ask them. that way they would know you are interested!

good luck, and let us know how it goes. lisa