This mutual selection process is coordinated by the Panhellenic Council Officers. It is designed to allow our sorority chapters and potential new members to have the opportunity to meet one another during our Primary Recruitment week. At the start of Primary Recruitment, you will meet your Rho Gamma or "recruitment guide." Rho Gammas are current students and members of one of our sorority chapters. They disaffiliate for the process to help support you from a neutral stance to remove any bias, ask and answer questions you may have, and serve as your central support system throughout Primary Recruitment. They are highly trained to ensure your recruitment process is smooth, organized, and most importantly; fun!

Overall, we have three rounds of Primary Recruitment. You will visit all of our chapters during Round One, and from there, you will visit fewer and fewer chapters. After each round, you will use a program to enter your selections for the next round. Each chapter completes the same process for the women that attended their events that day. If you and the chapter mutually select each other for the following round, you will receive an invitation back to that chapter. You may receive an invitation to any chapter you visit during the previous round. Primary Recruitment culminates with Bid Day, where we celebrate all of our new members as a community, and you get to meet all of your new sisters at each chapter's Bid Day celebration.

After Primary Recruitment and during the spring semester, chapters that are eligible to continue to recruit new members may conduct a process known as Continuous Open Bidding (COB). Not all of our chapters will be eligible for COB. This informal process is coordinated on a chapter basis, but you can contact any Panhellenic Council Officer to get more information on the chapters that are participating and when they are hosting events. We also recommend following Panhellenic's Instagram to stay connected - @eraupanhellenic