Not the actual ceremony, but the chapter might have a parents brunch later that morning/weekend. It can be a great way for parents to see the chapter house, get to know the chapter officers/advisers and learn more about what their daughter will be doing as a member of XYZ (especially those who weren't in GLOs themselves).

Question...because Auburn does recruitment so early, how does this work for housing? Do they allow the new froshes to move into the houses afterwards or are they still in dorms after they get their bids?

We don't have any sorority houses. You see, there's a law in Alabama that says more than 3 unrelated women can't live together--just kidding! Just kidding!

Each sorority has a floor in a dorm; some are the only sorority in their dorm (usually 3-story dorms) and some, like Pi Phi and Alpha Chi, each have a floor in a 6-story dorm. We all have chapter rooms in the dorm basements. Sometimes PNMs live in the dorms that house Greeks, not on the Greek floors of course, but several years ago they lived in majority-freshmen dorms. Maybe Auburn still has those.

That describes Bid Day for us!

Huh that's kinda cool. Thanks for the info. I refused to live in-house but that was mostly due to medical issues. If you saw how many stairs we had in our house and you had a bad knee, you'd opt out too! Hardwood stairs are scary as hell in heels, let alone barefoot.

BTW-I KNEW ALABAMA HAD A BROTHEL LAW! and there's an Auburn pin on the moon.

my little sis is going through rush at auburn this fall and she is moving into her dorm on saturday. freshmen already have dorm assignments, so they will just move into the dorm room they are assigned to.

War Eagle to your daughter! I hope she has a fantastic recruitment!! :D

I remember driving around the hill on bid day, good times.

I think it's wonderful when sororities make Bid Day a family event. As already said, Bid Day is a huge To Do at Alabama. We have Moms, Dads, siblings, you name it all come to celebrate their daughter's new life.

At our Chapter we hold a brief parents meeting while the PNM's meet with their new member educator for the first time. We introduce the House Director, the Advisors and any Inat'l officers who may be present. I've found it makes the parents feel much more comfortable knowing there are alums who are actively involved in the running of the Chapter and therefore active in their daughter's lives. You'd be surprised at the number of parents who didn't expect this, primarily those who weren't Greek or whose Chapters didn't have active alum support.

Going down on Bid Day
 

Although it is still up in the air as to whether or not my daughter will get a bid on bid day. I have planned all along to go down there. I am still going to go even if she doesn't get a bid as I feel as if she will need me that much more. Also I have purchased a "few more items" (Ha) for her and her dorm room! So I need to take those down to her as well and we can go shop for a printer in the morning. It should be a great day for me and her no matter what the outcome. I can only hope that it has a good outcome though and she gets a bid from this sorority that she is hoping for. I am so thankful I found this board with all of these threads. This site has been very helpful, informative, and supportive for me these last few days.

Since my experience was SOOOOO different than an SEC recruitment, I just have to say this... While I understand why most of them do recruitment before school starts, I was thinking back to when I first went away to school. I was so nervous about moving away from home to a school where I only knew a handful people, living in a dorm for the first time, worrying about finding my way around campus, having my friends split all over the state, etc. I can't even imagine adding the stress of an SEC recruitment to all that nervousness and emotion! It has to be extremely difficult for those who don't succeed at recruitment because it is their first taste of college life and it starts out difficult. Somehow, I'd never thought about that aspect of it before until you mentioned picking up a few more things for her dorm room. It brought me back to that very scary first week of school where I wasn't sure if I had everything I would need, didn't know what my roommate would be like, where the buildings were that I had to go to for classes, etc. How incredibly overwhelming for these young ladies (and their mothers!)

Auburn bid day
 

Lots of moms are there. It's not going to be on the President's lawn this year so that will be A LOT cooler and it's going to be at 3pm instead of 1pm! It's also going to be at the amphitheatre instead.

Lots of moms are there. Lots are not. They are going to be super involved with their new sorority so there is not a lot for moms to do anyway.

Parents are not allowed at initiation.

They do have mother/daughter activities though later on.