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Understanding Sorority Recruitment

  • Welcome to Washington & Lee!
    We’re very excited to have you here and even more excited that you are considering joining our sorority community.  This blog is designed to help parents and students understand the sorority recruitment process. It is important to understand that sororities are private, selective organizations.  Recruitment often involves disappointment both for chapters and potential new members. [...]
  • NPC Sororities at Washington & Lee
    The National Panhellenic Conference (NPC) is an organization composed of women’s Greek letter fraternities.  Each of the member groups is an autonomous social organization of college women, undergraduates and alumni. NPC is a conference body that adopts resolutions in order to govern its own internal operation.  Through such resolutions have come the unanimous agreements of [...]
  • NPC Unanimous Agreements Regarding Recruitment
    A woman who is or who has ever been an initiated member of an existing NPC fraternity shall not be eligible for membership in another NPC fraternity. To be eligible to pledge an NPC fraternity chapter on the campus where a woman is enrolled, she shall be regularly matriculated according to the definition of matriculation [...]
  • Glossary
    PNM – Potential New Member, all women participating in recruitment. Total – allowable chapter size, as determined by the Panhellenic Council. Quota – the number each sorority may pledge. COB — Continuous Open Bidding.  COB is an opportunity for those chapters that do not reach Quota during recruitment to bid to Quota and/or Total. Snap [...]

Fraternities and sororities exist for the personal and professional development of their members and their community. Greek life is typically founded on principles of scholarship, leadership, friendship and service that are taught internally by a national ritual to the members who strive to exhibit those principles in their daily rituals.

Greek Life is governed by the following organizations:

The Greek Vision Council and Order of Omega help provide guidance on values congruence.