BID DAY What to expect on Bid Day: The conclusion of Recruitment is Bid Day! You may receive an invitation to join or you may be notified by Panhellenic that your bid has not been matched. If your bid has not been matched, you will be eligible for snap bidding. If you receive an invitation to join, your bid card will list the sorority that has selected you. Every new member is required to wear a white dress on Bid Day. You will meet with your new pledge class at Tate Grand Hall and be shuttled by University busses to your Bid Day Celebration. At your sorority house, you will be met by your new sisters. Bid Day is a time for fun, pictures, entertainment and new friends. You will meet and become better acquainted with the other new members and older sorority sisters. This day is the exciting end of Recruitment and the beginning of the development of your new “home” away from home. Your new friends will last throughout your college career and the years after. Sisterhood extends beyond your college years to anywhere you may go as an alumna.
CONTINUOUS OPEN BIDDING What to expect during COB: The purpose of Continuous Open Bidding (COB) is to enable the chapters that did not fill quota, or filled quota but did not reach chapter total, to invite additional new members to join immediately following Formal Recruitment. It is also an opportunity for those women who have mismatched, been released from Recruitment or withdrawn from Recruitment to join a sorority. The intent of COB is to provide maximum opportunities for membership to the greatest number of women who did not join during the Formal Recruitment period. Continuous Open Bidding begins after Bid Day and will also continue throughout the year when sororities have spaces available so you could be contacted about COB opportunities several months after Recruitment has ended. Your Gamma Chi will explain COB in more detail during Recruitment.
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