Registration is open from May 1st - August 5th. You can find the link here, on our website, or on our social media accounts. In order to register, you must complete the full registration form, as well as pay the registration fee. The registration fee covers the costs of recruitment events, t-shirts and swag, Rho Gamma housing and meals, and much more! Once you have completed your registration form and paid the fee, you will receive a confirmation email. After that, you will hear from your Rho Gamma right before move-in day and find out more details from them!

Primary Recruitment is a long, but rewarding process where you will meet and get to know the 14 Panhellenic sororities at WSU and a variety of members in each chapter. It is a mutual selection process, meaning that this is the time when you narrow down your options of what sorority you will join at the end of the week, and chapters simultaneously invite back women they would like to see each round. As the week goes on, you will get to know more about the aspects of each sorority you are visiting. 

During recruitment, you can expect lots of talking and answering questions about what you are involved or interested in, what you are looking forward to in college, and what you want to get out of your sorority experience. You also will want to ask questions that are important to you, to get to know the sororities and find the best fit for you.

You can also expect long days. WSU has a large number of chapters and we want to be sure that you get to spend a good amount of time with the organizations you are attending events with. You will want to find ways to take care of yourself and take advantage of down time to rest, reflect and relax. You will want to rest your voice when you can, eat good meals and snacks, and stay hydrated!

You can expect recruitment to be an emotional week, with both good moments, but also with some disappointing ones. Your options will narrow down during recruitment and sometimes you will receive invitations that you are excited to see or may have moments where you are sad that you did not receive an invitation that you may have wanted or may be disappointed to not receive the same invitation as a friend or to a legacy chapter.

You can expect to meet a lot of new people, hopefully women in your recruitment group that will remain friends throughout your collegiate experience.

The most important thing is to wear something that is comfortable and feels like you! You should not need anything that you don’t already have. Here is a quick look at what you might wear each round:

Round 1 - Leadership & Involvement Round: This is a very casual round. Casual pants, shorts, or a skirt are appropriate and comfortable shoes like sandals or sneakers are perfect. Do not wear heels, as there is a LOT of walking between these two days and you want to save your feet! 

Round 2 - Philanthropy Round:  Casual sundresses, rompers, pants/shorts/skirts and a top are appropriate for this round. These days are a tiny more dressy than the first round, but still should be something that is comfortable for you and shows off your personality. We recommend wearing sandals, sneakers, or flats for both days as you will be doing a lot of walking and the sidewalks are not flat!

Round 3- Sisterhood Round: Slightly more dressy sundresses, rompers, a skirt and tops are appropriate for this round. This day is more dressy than the first round, but not quite as dressy as Preference. It should still be something you are comfortable in and will stay cool in. We recommend wearing flats that you will be able to walk in.

Round 4 - Preference: A nice sundress, jumpsuits, or like attire are appropriate for this round. The dress you wore to graduation would likely be a great choice. You do not need to wear only black or white, patterns and bright colors are totally acceptable! It is still appropriate to wear sandals or flats during this round, but if you want to wear heels or platform sandals (as many women choose to do), we strongly suggest bringing along a pair of flip flops for between events.

 Bid Day: Once you receive and open your bid, you will walk home and be given a bid day t-shirt! So wearing something that you can easily throw your new t-shirt over is best. Shorts, skirts, or denim skirts of any variety are appropriate and we suggest wearing sandals or sneakers to bid day as you will be running home to your new chapter!

On Bid Day, many families send congratulatory flowers to their daughters. The Center for Fraternity & Sorority Life will notify the florists listed below of the chapter your daughter joins so they can design an arrangement to your specifications or in alignment with that chapter's colors or flowers.

They will not reveal to you what sorority your daughter will be joining, and we ask that you do not request that information. The flowers will be delivered to your daughter's sorority for her to pick up there on Bid Day. If you send an arrangement, please check in with your daughter on the afternoon of Bid Day to make sure she picks up her flowers. 

VENDORS: 

NEILL'S FLOWERS AND GIFTS: 509-334-3545

SAFEWAY: 509-332-0803

ROSAURERS SUPERMARKET: (509) 296-1181

- Taking orders from 8am on August 5th through the 15th at 5:00pm. 

- Price points: $59, $79, and $99

Letters of recommendation will not make or break your recruitment experience. Our suggestion is to graciously accept if somebody offers to write you one, but do not worry if you do not have any. Each sorority has different policies and procedures on letters of recommendation. The alumna who is writing on your behalf will need to contact her national or local organization to understand the process of how letters of recommendation are submitted for her individual group.

Primary Recruitment is the only opportunity to visit every single chapter within the Panhellenic Community. It is a more structured process and provides a safe, supportive environment where you have a Rho Gamma to guide you, a group of women to support you, and education opportunities to learn about many different aspects of our community. Continuous Open Bidding is not a guaranteed or structured process, and we cannot speak to how many chapters will be participating following Primary Recruitment.

Yes! We welcome all women who are interested in joining our community to try it out and see if Greek life is for them!

No. Fall orientation dates overlap with primary recruitment dates.

The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) does not allow individual collegiate Panhellenic sororities to set a minimum GPA for potential members to participate in Recruitment. Individual chapters do have GPA requirements for membership, and these depend on each organization. We recommend that you have at least a 3.0 HS GPA, or 2.8 College GPA, but these are not required.

We encourage every woman to give recruitment a try, though, prior academic performance is a high priority on our campus. Your student’s academic performance will be verified with the Office of Admissions and communicated to the chapters on our campus. In order to have verified GPA on file, your daughter must have had her final high school or college transcript sent to the Office of Admissions via mail. Otherwise, her GPA will be listed as unverified. Please be aware that her prior academic performance can affect whether or not she can join a chapter at the end of the week. GPA requirements vary by chapter, though a general standard is a 2.8 cumulative GPA for high school, and a 3.0 cumulative GPA for college. Your daughter can email pan.scholarship@wsu.edu with any questions or concerns. Keep in mind we can only communicate with your student, and not you, as per FERPA guidelines. 

Yes. In order to participate in primary recruitment you must participate actively with all chapters. This includes attending all of the events that you are invited to. Fully participating in the recruitment events gives you the best opportunity to get to know the chapters and a variety of their members in order to make the most informed membership choice, and skipping out on events looks poorly on your character. Additionally, if you skip any events you will be released from the recruitment process.

Although Primary Recruitment is not a guaranteed process, our campus typically has a high placement rate. 

Going through the recruitment process does not obligate you to join a sorority. If at any point during recruitment you decide that sorority membership is not what you are looking for, then you may withdraw from the process. To do so, you must notify a Panhellenic Officer or your Recruitment Counselor (Rho Gamma) and fill out a simple withdrawal form. Once you withdraw from recruitment, you will be eligible to join through the Continuous Open Bidding process or Informal Spring Recruitment if you would like to during the year.  If you decide to drop at any point during the recruitment process, you are still able to join one of the nine MGC organizations. For more information on MGC organizations, visit the MGC website.

Continuous Open Bidding is a much less structured process for women to join a sorority during the academic year, from Bid Day until the completion of Spring Graduation. Sororities that are under Panhellenic total (median chapter size), are eligible to take new members up to total if they choose. Not all sororities participate in COB.

In most cases, once contacted by a chapter, a small group of women will meet with you or take you out to coffee. They then may invite you over to the house for a meal, a house tour, or to participate in a sisterhood event with the chapter a few times before offering you a bid to membership if they believe that you are a good fit for their organization. Typically you will get 24 hours to decide if you would like to accept your bid, or if you are unable to accept on the spot.

There is not a registration for Fall COB. If you are interested in joining a chapter, following Primary Recruitment, that is done on a chapter to chapter level. You will need to either email pan.recruitment@wsu.edu to express your interest in contacting chapters about COB, or you may contact individual chapters via social media and email.

For Spring Informal Recruitment, there is an Informal Interest Form posted on our social media in January. If you fill out this form, your contact information will be provided to chapters participating in Informal Recruitment. You will also be able to reach out to individual chapters expressing interest, but not all chapters will be recruiting during this time.

A Rho Gamma is your Recruitment Counselor. She is a disaffiliated member of the community, meaning they are a member of a chapter, but have disaffiliated and cannot reveal what chapter they are in. These women have worked incredibly hard on their disaffiliation and preparing for you, so please be respectful and don’t try to find out their affiliation during the week. You will find out what chapter your Rho Gamma is in during the Rho Gamma Reveal on Bid Day! You may even be lucky enough to run home with them!

Similar to your Orientation Counselor, your Rho Gamma will lead you around during the week and help you throughout the recruitment process. She is there to answer any questions you may have, provide an unbiased opinion, and help support you during the long week. You will be able to talk about your chapter preferences with her, and her alone, so she will become your greatest confidant during the week!

Yes, however, you cannot join another sorority for a full calendar year. You would become eligible to join another chapter during the next Primary Recruitment period (the next fall).

No, you don’t have to accept your bid. By running home on bid day, you accept your bid to the chapter. If you choose not to run home, you will be denying that bid. If you deny your bid, you will be ineligible to join another chapter for a full calendar year.

Unfortunately, no. Only undergraduate, full-time students at WSU Pullman campus are eligible to participate in Sorority Recruitment.

No, you don’t! There is a spot on the application to fill out your off-campus address if you will not be living in a Residence Hall. If you are living off-campus, you will be required to meet up with your Rho Gamma group at the beginning of each day.

Food is not provided, however, there will be meal breaks where you will go to the dining halls. If you are a Freshman, living on-campus, you will have your RDA account to spend in the dining halls. If you live off-campus, we would encourage you to either pack a lunch, or plan on spending money in the dining halls and markets on campus, as you will not have enough time to go back to your apartment or house most of the time.

We hope that you will give your chapters on Preference Round a fair chance, but if you truly do not see yourself joining them, you may withdraw from recruitment before preferencing. We always encourage women to keep an open mind before closing off their options, but in the end we want you to be happy too!

No. Every chapter has their own national policies for legacies, so it does not always guarantee a bid. These policies are decided by National or International offices and are not public knowledge. However, we encourage you to list your legacies on the registration form. Other chapters will not know that you are a legacy to other chapters, they will only be notified if you are a legacy for their chapter.

No, you cannot be recruited over the summer for Panhellenic sororities. Our only recruitment options are Primary Recruitment, COB, and Informal Recruitment.

While the schedule varies, you can expect to start most days between 6:30-7:30 AM and end around 5-6:30pm. There will sometimes be after-dinner events, such as programs or Week of Welcome events, but you will receive a full schedule on Move-In Day!

Just like any other organization, membership in a sorority does have commitments. However, it is very common for sorority members to work, participate in athletics, activities, and volunteer for the community throughout the academic year. It is expected that sorority members will participate in certain chapter activities, meet financial obligations, and in some cases, assist with minimal duties within the chapter. Each organization, at minimum, has one weekly chapter meeting lasting on average an hour a week. Other commitments each semester include participating in chapter-hosted philanthropy events, educational programs, attending chapter events and activities, and community service hours.The time commitment varies based on what you put in and what you choose to partake in. However, on average you can expect to commit about 3-5 hours per week. If you choose to become involved in other activities within your chapter, such as intramurals or a leadership position, you can expect to commit more time per week and per month.

Panhellenic refers to the National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) which governs our 14 residential sororities. These chapters are women-only organizations and each have a physical chapter facility on Greek Row.

Pan-Hellenic refers to the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC). NPHC is a collaborative organization of nine historically African American, international Greek fraternities and sororities. The nine NPHC organizations are sometimes referred to as the “Divine Nine.” We have one active NPHC organization on our campus. For more information, visit www.gogreek.wsu.edu.

MGC is our Multicultural Greek Council, which is made up of 14 organizations, including sororities, fraternities, an Aztec brotherhood, and a co-ed organization. These organizations are typically culturally-based and provide a unique Greek experience! For more information, visit www.gogreek.wsu.edu.

Yes! You can join as many academic and professional clubs or organizations as you would like. You may only join one Greek organization (between NPC, NPHC, or MGC) but you may join other clubs on campus. Many women in Panhellenic sororities are members of other Registered Student Organizations (RSOs), hold internships, have jobs, or participate in research on campus. All sororities appreciate having very involved members.

Every semester we will have Panhellenic-wide community events, as well as Greek-wide events. These are great opportunities to meet women in other chapters, as well as members of our entire Greek community. You will also meet women in your Rho Gamma group during Recruitment Week and will likely remain friends with them, even upon joining different chapters. You can also meet women in other chapters through classes and by getting involved outside your chapter!

There are NO bad chapters, and the Panhellenic Community at Washington State does not condone the “tier system” as on other university campuses. Each chapter has their own strengths, values, and passions that make them unique. No chapters are better than other chapters, and we recommend that you do not base your recruitment experience off the opinions of others. We will not tolerate bringing others down, as our community supports one another and lifts each other up.

Each new member is paired with an upper class member in the first half of the year. You will likely have a process of meeting several upper class women before being paired with your Big. Sorority bigs are women (traditionally in the member class directly above the new member class) that mentor and support their new member or little. Big/Little reveal occurs when the new members find out who their mentor (Big) is.

Washington State’s campus, and each sorority national organization, has strict policies which address hazing. Each sorority, nationally and internationally, complies with anti-hazing laws. If you do feel uncomfortable at any time, there are plenty of resources you can reach out to and contact including the Panhellenic Council, the Fraternity and Sorority Life Staff, and Student Conduct. If hazing is reported, it is very taken seriously by our council, Washington State University, and the sorority’s national organization. All new members and initiated members also receive hazing prevention programming each year. 

While membership is for a lifetime and we hope that your sorority experience will add value to your collegiate and alumna years, you can withdraw membership from your sorority as an undergraduate should you lose interest or need to for other reasons. This is something that you will need to discuss with your individual organization, likely a chapter president or advisor to learn about the process of leaving your organization. It is important to note that there may be some financial obligations that you are still responsible for if you are moving out of the chapter house or have outstanding dues to the organization.   

If you have been initiated into the sorority, you are unable to join another Panhellenic group at WSU or at any other college campus.

If you have not been initiated into the sorority, you are able to join another Panhellenic sorority during the next primary recruitment period.

Membership in a sorority is for a lifetime so even if you graduate early, you will still be a member, but with alumna status. Once you graduate, you will no longer attend chapter meetings or events with the undergraduate chapter but can be involved with an alumnae group. 

On WSU’s campus, most members do not move in until their Sophomore (or second) year. There is a chance that members may be able to move in at the semester change of their first year, right before leaving on Winter break, but these spots are often limited and not every chapter has this ability. The majority of chapters have Sophomores and Juniors living in, but it is also common for many members at WSU to live in during just their Sophomore year and live off-campus or in an apartment/house during their Junior and Senior years. Each organization has their own requirements for living in, so be sure to check what these requirements are before making any permanent living plans following your Freshman year.

The best way to know if your financial aid will cover sorority costs is to inquire with the Financial Aid Office at Washington State University. They will be able to answer your specific questions about if the aid you receive can be used to pay for housing or dues. Find out more by visiting: www.financialaid.wsu.edu. 

A sleeping porch is a large room inside a chapter house that contains bunk beds for approximately 10 to 60 women. Not every chapter at WSU has a sleeping porch, but many do. This varies between chapters, and some chapters may even have multiple sleeping porches. While a member’s bed may be on a sleeping porch, most have another room where they would keep their belongings and have a closet, desk, and dresser.

All of our Panhellenic organizations at WSU have a chapter facility, and most facilities were built before ADA accommodations. Ability to accommodate mobile disability access is varied within our chapters. Some are able to accommodate individuals with mobility needs on the first floor through the front or a side entrance and some have elevators that allow members with mobility needs to live and have access to all floors.  If you have specific questions or have other disability accommodation needs please feel free to contact us at pan.recruitment@wsu.edu.

Every chapter facility is unique and may offer different amenities. Amenities that would be provided in any chapter would be a twin bed, study areas (such as a study lounge or individual desk), closet/dresser space, laundry, bathrooms, meals, and WiFi.

This depends on the specific sorority, although in the majority of cases most women live in the chapter facility for at least one or two years.

Each chapter’s chef or catering company works to accommodate members who have food preferences or allergies. You will need to communicate your dietary needs with your chapter's chef when you join the chapter or move in so that they know and are able to accommodate your specific needs.