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When I was in school, for informal recruitment, women would receive their bids in a sealed envelope in their mailbox, so it was their choice where to open them. I believe they also did this for Formal recruitment, though I could be wrong.
In any event, women would gather in the lobby of a very historic building on campus and gather into groups, Rho Chis would reveal themselves, then one group at a time, the women would link arms and march down the hill to the Avenue that house all 4 of the sororities, starting with the group farthest down the street. You would see these lines of women marching down the street, Rho Chis on either end, smiling widely in their letters. All the groups would cheer and chant as everyone went by. And when your group came by, you ran into the street and showered the New Members with hugs, flowers, balloons, etc. Then we would go into our houses, do introductions, and EVERYONE from EVERY HOUSE would march up to the Cafeteria, and the sororities took over the left side of the Cafe. (Apparently they used to sing and chant in there too, but they had to stop that because too many PNMs who did get bids left the Cafe in tears!)
Then each Sorority would go back to their house and do some sort of activity with the NMs. We went Roller Skating every year!! I get very nostalgic for rollerskating every September and January!!
Like you said, AAgammagirl, it was hard to see other chapters have many more girls walk down the street, then see only 4 or 5 coming to us (Chapter totals were 50, and quota was usually around 10).
Zeta seemed to take a lot of women involved in music, so often, they had practice at the time that we had Bid Day. And that made our numbers look smaller. Even knowing that there were more girls who weren't there made it hard to watch.
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