Primary Recruitment How it Works

At the end of every round, Potential New Members (PNMs) will prioritize the sororities whose events they have attended, in preferential order. At the same time, the sororities are submitting their selection of PNMs to invite back in preferential order. Each PNM’s preferences and sorority’s selections are processed to generate invitations to the next round. An hour before the events begin for the next round, PNMs will receive their schedule of events for that day. A PNM will not know which of the 12 sororities have invited her back until she receives her schedule.

For example, after the end of Round 1, PNMs will make selections. The maximum amount of sororities a PNM can attend during Round 2 is 9. Therefore a PNM will ‘cluster’ the 9 she would “LIKE” to return to as # 1 and rank the remaining 3 in preferential order, 2, 3, and 4. This does NOT guarantee that a PNM will receive invitations to her top 9. This simply allows the National Panhellenic Conference Recruitment Specialist to guide sororities on the number of Potential New Members they may invite. The purpose of this is to create a culture of equality for invitations among sororities.

This process will continue for Rounds 2 and 3. PNMs may only prioritize, they may not ‘delete’ any sororities.

A PNM may only prioritize sororities that she has attended events for that round and cluster up to the maximum number that a PNM can visit the next round. The maximum amount for Round 2 is 9, Round 3 is 6, and Round 4 is 2. In some cases, a PNM may not have attended the maximum amount, therefore, she will only make selections from the number of sororities she has visited. A PNM may only prioritize the sororities that she visited in the previous round. She will then cluster her remaining options to the max number of events allowed for the next round.