This May Sound Dumb....
 

.... But could somebody please explain the steps to becoming a soror? I keep reading all these terms (rush, bid day, pledge, formal/informal recruitment, initiation...) and I get it, but then again I don't. Could someone just explain what order they go in and a brief description of what they actually are?

The terms you listed (rush, bid day, pledge, etc.) are ones used in NPC (National Panhellenic Conference) recruitment. There are 26 NPC sororities.

I'm assuming you're wondering about the 4 NPHC sororities (National Pan-Hellenic Council), as "soror" is used more commonly by their members.

Since that's the case,
www.aka1908.org
www.deltasigmatheta.org
www.sgrho1922.org/
www.zphib1920.org

You might also want to pay attention to the stickied posts in their individual GC forums if you have questions pertaining to membership

26? How can you even remember all of them?

And yes, I was referring to the NPHC.

Thank you for the links.

I can't speak for my NPC sisters, but I learned and memorized them during my Fraternity Education program.

Remembering them is no different from knowing the alphabet.

my experience is that these days not everyone (collegians) even know there are 26 groups, much less what they all are.

Please pay close attention to these!:D

I learned there were 26 but I never learned all of their names. I could probably have come up with 15 of them in undergrad and all 26 now (with a bit of thought) that I've been on GC.

I did all 26 as an undergrad for our national NPC rep... she was impressed :)

I learned all 26 before I joined ADPi because of GC. :)

Same here. If I thought about it now and wrote them down I think I could do all 26 but it wasn't in my new member education. OTOH, I rocked the hell out of my new member education test before initiation scoring a 99.5. Damn you omicron! The one missing letter!

Haha, I might have missed one question on that test, but it wasn't a Greek Letter. Funny that you remember it was Omicron :p

It was definitely not in our new member education - one of my best friends who was president of our chapter got into a fight with a KD over whether KD was a NPC sorority or not. ;)

You're kidding! :eek:

I know they've since done a new NME handbook/workbook, but in the one I had (the mid-late 90s version), an entire page was dedicated to the 26 NPC sororities, complete with illustrations of the badges, founding dates/campus, official flower/jewel -- you know, the quick facts.

Haha, ditto that! It didn't hurt having 20 of them on campus, either, I suppose.

I'm an NPC geek - I know all 26, their colors and their symbols. Same for the NPHC groups. I know quite a few founding campus names, too.