How does your school do bid day?

[_Lisa_]

At the University of Kentucky, Bid Day starts with girls who didn't get a bid receiving phone calls from their Gamma Chi (we called them Rho Chi back in my day! ) so they would know not to come to the afternoon's activities.

All the girls are gathered in one large hall wearing their white dresses, bids are passed out, & the Gamma Chi's do a skit to reveal who is from which organization. Before rushing off to the house the girls are shuffled into classrooms to meet their new member educator & sign their bid cards. If you are unhappy with the organization you were accepted to, this is the time to bow out & find your Gamma Chi for support.

After the bid cards are signed, you learn some cheers/chants/songs & then sing them as you walk to your new home. The Actives for each house are usually waiting outside with balloons, flowers, t-shirts, etc. The Actives usually have some kind of activity planned for the rest of the evening.

[AlphaFrog]

Ours was the Monday after rush week. Everyone met in the student union and bids were passed out by Rho Chis. Everyone waited until all the bids were passed out, and then we opened them all at once. Then, 2 girls from each sorority would call for their new members, and we ran up to the grand ballroom where our new sisters were waiting. Then the Rho Chis had a slideshow prepared, and did their revealing (they had matching letter shirts on under their jerseys, and revealed by pulling off their jersey - great for all of the "Sigma" groups we had, because they could keep the suspense going by only revealing their Sigma) and were accepted back into their group (usually with a lot of tears and excitement).

[BaylorBean]

Great thread by the way. It is really cool seeing how different bid day is everywhere.

Our bid day was also held the monday after recruitment (Recruitment started Wed, Pref was on Sunday). We all met our Rho Chi and group at the student union in the afternoon and then waited for her to call us into a room with just her where she gave us our bid. It was nice because if you were upset, the entire group wasn't there to see it. You then either accept or decline, go to another room and sign the bid card with the respective sorority's advisor.

Once everyone had their bids, all the groups went over to "the hill" and waited at the top with all the sororities waiting at the bottom. Then group by group sang "Hmm and a little bit more" with each girl yelling out the sorority she accepted a bid from and then run down the hill with out breaking their neck to their respective group. In the end the Rho Chis do the same thing to reveal who they are members of.

It was quite the sight with all the Fraternaties showing up to get a good laugh and the occasional streaker.

[PeppyGPhiB]

At my school, which had 8 sororities (7 now) and about 300 women going through recruitment, almost every woman matches, so fortunately the rho chis never had to deal with telling women they didn't get a bid. Unless they suicided, which several women did every year. We called those women ahead of time so they knew not to come down to collect a bid.

For the rushees that got bids, each rho chi was in charge of handing out their rushees' bids. We usually had a time frame in which our rushees could come get their bids; most women would show up right away, but some women that were nervous would actually wait until the last minute. Each rho chi group had a table in an area of a nice, private room, and we would hand out bids to the women as they showed up. Some women would tear open the bids right away, in front of everyone, whereas others would take the envelope and go into the bathroom or outside to open it privately. It was never a frenzy, and I don't recall a lot of crying, either. Note that we did not have an option to accept or deny a bid; we were told by NPC after preference parties that by listing sororities on our final bid preference form we were indicating we would accept a bid from any of them.

Once bids are handed out, all the new members and rho chis gather in the amphitheatre for the rho chi reveal. When I was there, all the rho chis would sing a portion of a rush song/chant from each chapter on campus, then on the second round of singing the medley, they'd remove their rho chi sweatshirts to reveal their GLO letters underneath (at the appropriate time, of course ) Then the rho chis gather up the new members of their sororities and lead them off to meet their chapters, who wait for them in assorted nearby locations on campus.