REGISTER FOR FALL RECRUITMENT
Contact USC's Office of Residential and Greek Life:
Director: Denzil J. Suite
(213) 740-2080
(213) 749-9781 (FAX)
dsuite@usc.edu
Student Union 200
You can register for Recruitment through this office.
RECOMMENDATIONS
You may obtain letters of recommendation from sorority alumnae. These are not required. They serve as a little "introduction" of you to the USC sorority. The recommendation is written by an alumna member of the sorority (the alumna does not need to have gone to USC) who sends in the recommendation on your behalf. There are plenty of alumnae of Greek Chat who will be happy to write you a rec, or to help you find someone who will. Most of these recommendations are a pre-set form unique to each sorority. The alum will ask you to help her fill in the blanks. Some alum are comfortable writing a rec for a woman they have not met in person, others are not. But those that are not will often help you find someone who will write you that rec. Just ask!
RESEARCH
Get an idea of who is on campus. The inter/national sororities have web sites (look them up on google.com), and some of the chapters on USC's campus have sites, too. You can learn about their history and traditions here:
USC Sororities
Alpha Chi Omega
Alpha Delta Kappa
Alpha Delta Pi
Alpha Gamma Gamma
Alpha Kappa Alpha
Alpha Phi
Delta Delta Delta
Delta Gamma
Delta Phi Kappa
Delta Sigma Theta
Gamma Phi Beta
Kappa Alpha Theta
Kappa Kappa Gamma
Lamda Theta Nu
Pi Beta Phi
Sigma Gamma Rho
Sigma Lambda Gamma
Sigma Phi Omega
Sigma Theta Psi
Tau Theta Pi
Zeta Phi Beta
WHAT TO WEAR
When you register for recruitment, you can ask them questions about attire. Also, PM bruinaphi-- she is an adviser at USC.
Typically, you will want to wear dresses or skirt/top coordinates throughout the week. Remember that you are dressing for the girls, and not for boys (think classic lines and jewelry, not skimpy-too short-too tight-sequined cleavage display!) A lot of ladies here recommend wearing a piece of signature jewelry -- something that might be a good "conversation" piece. The last evening (Preference) will be a bit fancier than the rest. Wear comfortable shoes-- you will be walking and standing a bit!
If you get to campus a bit before, no doubt you will run into other young women who will be going through recruitment, and you can share ideas about what you're wearing, do some last-minute shopping, etc.
WHAT TO EXPECT
When Recruitment Week begins, you will go to some kind of kick-off event. You will be assigned to a Recruitment Counselor (a sorority woman who has disaffiliated from her chapter to be an objective guide to Greek Life for you) and there will be other Potential New Members who are also assigned to her. You'll meet a lot of Potential New Members, both in this group, and in other Recruitment Counselor groups.
Recruitment will be very structured, with specific times that you will be chaperoned to the houses. Once in the house, you will be paired up with a sorority woman. She will introduce you to other sisters in that house, and you'll have a chance to learn about the women as individuals, and about the sorority, while giving them a chance to get to know you. This is a great time to talk about your academic accomplishments and extracurricular involvement in high school, as well as your current major and what you're looking for in a sorority. This is also a good time to ask questions about the new member education period, dues, requirements for living in the chapter house, how the sorority participates in campus life and Greek life, and to ask them about friendships they have formed within the sorority and how they came to choose that sorority. Go into recruitment with an open mind-- you are there to make friends! See which sororities you might feel most comfortable in. The most important thing to remember is to just be yourself. Recruitment is a lot like a (very fun!) job interview. Appear interested, smile, ask good questions, give good answers, and get a feel for if this might be somewhere you would want to be!
During the week, you will be engaged in conversation with various sorority women. In addition to conversation, they will perform skits to show off their talent, do a craft project with you that is related to their sorority's philanthropy, etc. The Recruitment Counselors will be there every step of the way to answer questions!
Each day of recruitment, you and the sororities will engage in a mutual selection process, cutting down the number of houses you will go back to until the last night, Preference, when you will rank the houses you might see yourself a member of in the order you would choose.
On Bid Day, if the mutual selection process has matched, you will be given an invitation (also called a bid) to join a sorority! (For more information on mutual selection, totals, quotas, etc, visit
http://forums.greekchat.com/gcforum...;threadid=22514)
More about Bid Day: At this point, you will be chaperoned to your new sorority house, where you will be greeted by your new sorority sisters and take part in Bid Day celebrations! They will explain additional key dates for membership, expectations, etc. You'll also receives tons of little take home treats with your sorority's name on it!
Sometimes in the mutual selection process, a woman might not be given a bid. Don't panic if you are one of the women-- you still have the opportunity to be in a sorority. Many of the sororities will hold an informal recruitment after the formal recruitment period is over, where they are taking new members in both the fall and spring semesters. These informal recruitment events are less structured and much more low-key.... most sisters and PNM's would even argue that they're more fun
Good luck to you at USC!
** Edited because none of the links to the chapters worked!
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