UF Spring Recruitment!!

[UFSpringPNM]

So Recruitment was today and it was so busy! They basically met with us early morning to tell us how bidding worked for the spring and to tell us who was participating in addition to tabling for an hour that way we could actually meet some members before going to the houses.
Judging from the past year's posts it seems like this year is way more structured as to how they give out bids. Basically Panhellenic Council is actually going to process all of the bids and notify girls as to whether they receive a bid or bids or not after 5pm tomorrow then from 7 to 9 we pick up however many bids we received and we have 24 hours to accept or decline it. As like other years, bidding will go on for a week or two as people decline some bids that they received.
I'm really nervous about it because I felt like I connected with some sororities but with others I felt like they kind of just pushed me through the house and it felt like they didn't really care. It's also very nerve racking just because there were so many girls that were rushing and not as many bids available.

[carnation]

How many groups are participating?

[UFSpringPNM]

There were 9.
Alpha Chi Omega, Delta Zeta, Pi Beta Phi, Kappa Kappa Gamma, Sigma Kappa, Delta Phi Epsilon, Phi Mu, Chi Omega, and Kappa Alpha Theta.

[FSUZeta]

How great that so many groups were able to participate! Good luck to you!!! Please let us know.

[miss_me]

Hi guys I'm new here but I too went through spring recruitment today at UF. They said the auditorium would be full at the beginning which would be around 300 girls.

UFSpringPMN, I also felt pushed through several houses, and at the table event I did not get to meet all the chapters. I connected at one or two sororities, and I am hoping for the best

[bluepink]

I hope it all works out. Be interested to see if one of you end up in same sorority as my daughter. She said it was a fun and busy day!

[AnchorAlumna]

Pretty sure that if you get a bid, you will only get ONE bid. Not several.

[miss_me]

They did say it is possible for you to receive more than one bid though.

[Titchou]

With COB you can get more than one as the PNM doesn't rank or turn in a bid card.

[thetalady]

Originally Posted by Titchou

With COB you can get more than one as the PNM doesn't rank or turn in a bid card.

COB is just completely different from formal rush... none of the rules are the same.

[UFSpringPNM]

so no call for me yet but still keeping my hope up because the first 24 hour period will be up by tomorrow night so the sororities will be able to hand out more bids then. The bidding window is actually open for 10 weeks, which I thought was really weird, but the only thing I can do now is sit back and wait.

This definitely made me realize that Greek life is so for me and if nothing ends up happening for the spring then I definitely am doing it fall.

[FSUZeta]

Fingers crossed for you all!

[camom]

If I am understanding correctly, you meet the girls once and then wait for a bid?

[UFSpringPNM]

Yes, basically we had to visit the houses within the 6 hour period and from that they decided who they were giving bids to because this was informal recruitment.

[camom]

Not much time for you to get to know them or for them to get to know you.