There are several costs associated with participating in recruitment. Payment is required at the time of completing registration. The various fees are as follows:

$150.00 Recruitment Registration Fee: This fee is required for every student that registers for recruitment and covers the cost of participating in the process. This fee includes T-Shirts, a Tote Bag, access to our recruitment software, Convocation Programming, and Bid Day Programming. The recruitment registration fee is solely used to provide resources to those participating, and does not ensure an invitation to membership for any organization.

$168.00 Early Meal Plan Fee: This fee is required for every student that registers for the recruitment process and ensures that all Potential New Members (PNMs) are able to eat on campus during recruitment week. For more information regarding meal plans, please visit www.olemiss.campusdish.com.

$100.00 Early Move In Fee: This fee is required for any students living on campus, including in any off campus apartments that are owned and under agreement with the University of Mississippi . This fee allows Housing and Residential Life to prepare the facilities ahead of time and provide support during early move-in for PNMs. For more information regarding housing on campus, please visit www.studenthousing.olemiss.edu

Because both are required for any student participating in recruitment, the registration fee and Early Meal Plan fee will be collected together, totalling $318.oo. If you are living on campus, including in any off campus apartments that are owned and under agreement with the University of Mississippi, you will also be required to pay the Early Move In fee, totalling at $100.00. The recruitment registration fee ($150.00) is non-refundable under any circumstances. This includes withdrawing registration before attending the university, being removed due to ineligibility, being withdrawn or released from the process during the week, or not receiving a desired outcome at the conclusion of recruitment. If a PNM chooses to withdraw before or during recruitment, or is released from the process, they can contact Housing and Residence Life and Contractual Services to explore refunding the Early Meal Plan and Early Move In fees.

The College Panhellenic Council and the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life facilitate the logistics of recruitment. This means that we ensure recruitment events can happen on campus effectively. We plan convocation, work with the chapters to set event times, facilitate selection on Campus Director, plan Bid Day, and more! While we facilitate the logistics of recruitment, its important to know that neither CPH or FSL make any membership decisions on behalf of the potential new member or the chapter. More so, we are not able to know why certain membership decisions are made. Those remain confidential to the individual PNM or the chapter and are not shared with us unless deemed appropriate.

You should reach a confirmation email once you click “Submit” when registering online. If you don’t reach the confirmation page, please email collegepanhellenic@olemiss.edu. You will also receive an emailed receipt for your registration fees when paid.

Once a student registers for Primary Recruitment, they will begin receiving email updates from the Panhellenic Council from the email address greeks@olemiss.edu.

Log back into CampusDirector anytime using your Ole Miss WebID and password to edit your registration. Note, once you are logged back into CampusDirector, click on “Edit Account” on the left side of the page. You may see some information missing in “read only” fields. Don’t worry! The Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life staff will update that information every Friday afternoon leading up to Primary Recruitment. There will be some fields that you will not be able to edit; however, you will be able to edit those fields that you entered at the time of your registration.

Due to the Office of Fraternity & Sorority Life using your Ole Miss WebID to generate your CampusDirector account, sometimes that authorization times out for security reasons. Simply clear your web browser’s history, cache, cookies, etc. from the past hour or so. If you refresh the page, you should be able to proceed. Feel free to call 662.915.7609 if you have any issues with this!

Students should submit their final high school or college transcripts after graduation or course completion. Grades are verified by the transcripts on file with the University of Mississippi. The cumulative GPA on the transcript is the one used for Primary Recruitment. Please do not send transcripts to the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, we will work with the University to update your GPA based on what you submit to the Office of the Registrar.

Students should make sure their academic transcripts reflect a cumulative GPA on a 4.00 scale. Because your high school or college understands your courses and credits best, UM Fraternity & Sorority Life and the University do not calculate a cumulative GPA. Please make sure the cumulative GPA on a 4.00 scale is listed on the transcript before it is mailed to the university.

Mail transcripts to:

The University of Mississippi

Office of Admissions, P.O. Box 1848

University, MS 38677-1848

“Sorority,” specifically at the University of Mississippi, is not a term that is taken lightly. Although each sorority offers a different experience, our 11 organizations work as a cohesive unit to form the university’s Panhellenic community. To be a member of this community means to share morals and values with a group of exceptional women, to be challenged academically, to grow through leadership and involvement opportunities, and to give back to the university and Oxford community through philanthropic efforts. Our sororities promote sisterhood and love and encourage women to commit in order to find their home away from home.

Within the Panhellenic Council, the object shall be to develop and maintain women’s fraternity life and interfraternity relations at a high level of accomplishment and in so doing to: (1) Conduct the business of the College Panhellenic only during the campus academic year, (2) Promote the growth of individual chapters and the sorority community, (3) Organize and sponsor a women’s-only membership recruitment program, (4) Encourage the highest possible academic, social and moral standards, (5) Coordinate activities, establish orderly procedures and provide programming in addition to recruitment, (6) Adjudicate all matters related to the NPC Unanimous Agreements, College Panhellenic bylaws and/or other governing documents, College Panhellenic membership recruitment rules, College Panhellenic code of ethics and College Panhellenic standing rules, (7) Act in accordance with National Panhellenic Conference in condemning all forms of discrimination and committing to welcoming all women, regardless of their age, ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, socioeconomic status, body type, sexual orientation and abilities, within the Panhellenic sisterhood, (8) Actively support the mission of its host institution, (9) Promote good public relations, (10) Give service to the community and campus, and (11) Promote friendship, harmony and unity among members, chapters, faculty, administrators and campus groups.

Each chapter has financial requirements, which families should discuss before considering joining a sorority. Financial requirements may include membership dues, a meal plan, house fees, as well as room and board if you live in the sorority house. As prospective members, students need to talk with active members during recruitment events to learn more information about the financial obligations specific to each chapter, especially as payments are due following Bid Day.

New Member First Semester

High:$2,890.00

Average:$2,300.00

Members Residing Out-of-House (Per Semester)

High: $2,950.00

Average: $2,160.00

Members Residing In-House (Per Semester)

High: $5,350.00

Average: $4,210.00

Note: In most organizations, the first year of membership may be more expensive as new members pay one-time fees for items such as a membership pin, new member books, etc.

The dues for each sorority vary from chapter to chapter. However, dues are most commonly used on meals, staff salaries, chapter house maintenance, social events, international and local dues, educational programming, leadership development and materials, and community service projects. Again, be sure to ask specific questions about finances during recruitment!

Time management is the key. Many sorority women are able to manage sorority responsibilities, jobs or internships, academics and involvement in other campus organizations. If you are interested in joining a sorority but have concerns about the time commitment, feel free to ask members during recruitment how they balance their time!

Each sorority has its own mission, creed, and values that it lives by; however, overall, Panhellenic organizations strive to provide members with friendship, opportunities for personal growth/development and fun. To choose a chapter that is right for you, you should do some research, attend Panhellenic recruitment events and visit organizations’ social media pages. Formal recruitment is a process designed to allow you and the chapters to decide on the best fit. As you go through the process, be sure to keep an open mind, ask questions, and be yourself!

The University of Mississippi requires all freshmen to have a university meal plan. Students can choose any meal plan that works best for them.

When students join a fraternity or sorority, their membership dues include meals at the house, when available. Typically this is breakfast, lunch and dinner, Monday-Friday, with dinner not available on Fridays and no meals on Saturday or Sunday. If students become members of a fraternity or sorority in their freshman year, there is an opportunity for them to switch to a Greek meal plan, which you can learn more about here. For more information about meal plans, view the Dining FAQs or contact Ole Miss Dining Services.

Read through this website or follow our instagram @umcph for the most updated information. Recruitment counselors will be available during primary recruitment events to answer questions. Also, feel free to email the College Panhellenic Council at collegepanhellenic@olemiss.edu.

A Recommendation/Reference letter (also called a REC or RIF) serves as your introduction to the sorority, so that active members can get to know you in advance of primary recruitment in the fall. You may choose to have a recommendation or reference letter sent on your behalf to each of our chapters, and we encourage all potential new members to participate in this process. However, recommendation letters are not required to participate in the primary recruitment process, they are more like bonus points!

Reference and recommendation letters do not guarantee a bid for membership. Instead, they will help the chapters to learn a little about you in advance of primary recruitment. Many of our sororities strongly encourage a reference from an alumna before a woman can join; however, they are not essential for any sorority and most will accept a third-party letter as well. Every year we have women participate in recruitment that did not have a recommendation prior to the start of recruitment. If a chapter is interested in you becoming a member, they are well equipped to obtain the information they need to invite you to the next round or extend a bid to membership.

Scroll down for chapter Letters of Recommendation Information!

Additional “letters of support,” are personal handwritten letters on stationery from a sorority alumna, who has a personal relationship with a PNM, recommending her for membership. “Letters of Support” differ from Recommendations/References in that they are not on the official sorority recruitment information form and are often sent to the chapter either alone or as supplement to the recruitment information form. While commonplace in some areas, “Letters of Support” are neither encouraged nor recognized at The University of Mississippi.

If you cannot find a letter of recommendation for each of the 11 NPC sororities participating in primary recruitment at the University of Mississippi, please do not worry! Recommendation letters are not required, they are just highly encouraged.

We suggest that you consider family, friends, parents’ work colleagues or other people in your life who may be sorority alumnae. Another option is to acquire third-party recommendation letters from adults who are non-greek.

Yes! Most PNMs may be first-year students, but upperclassmen also are encouraged to register. Provided you are a full-time female student and have not been initiated into another NPC sorority at the University of Mississippi or on another campus, you can participate in primary recruitment.

College Panhellenic Council encourages all women going through the Primary Recruitment process to keep an open mind. The National Panhellenic Conference and its member organizations promote an accessible and inclusive recruitment, meaning that if you are a legacy of that organization, you are not guaranteed a bid to that organization.

It is a policy within our University that all students interested in joining an organization within the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life are enrolled in at least 12 credit hours and hold a 2.7 cumulative GPA. Any potential new member who does not have a 2.7 GPA at the time of registration closing (July 14th, 2024) will not be permitted to participate in the 2024 primary recruitment process. To read more about this policy, you can refer to the M Book, policy DSA.DS.400.005.

First-year students or students with less than 12 college credit hours will use their final cumulative high school grade point average as reported by their high school. Students with more than 12 college credit hours will use their college cumulative grade point average as reported by their academic institution. To help students understand how their GPA may affect their Primary recruitment experience, Panhellenic Council created Grade Zones to show how academics may factor in Primary recruitment.

• Green Zone = Your options are not likely limited based on your GPA. (3.0+)

• Yellow Zone = Your options are more likely to be limited by your GPA. (2.8 – 2.99)

• Red Zone = Your options are very likely to be limited by your GPA. (2.7-2.79)

*All chapter GPA Requirements in order to join range from a 3.0 to a 3.25.

If you have questions regarding the GPA that is on file with the University or questions about how GPAs are calculated, please contact the Office of Admissions by emailing admissisons@olemiss.edu or calling 662.915.7226

The primary recruitment process takes place before classes begin. However, you may be attending extended orientation or various campus welcome events. We ask that recruitment be a priority, but if you need to be excused from an event for any reason there will be a form to fill out from your recruitment counselor. If an emergency arises on the day of your round, please let your recruitment counselor know immediately.

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