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Lifelong friends, loyal sisters, a home away from home, a whole new world of things to do - all these things you gain when you become a member of Gamma Phi, and so much more.

Becoming a Gamma Phi Beta

Continuous Open Recruitment (COR) follows shortly after formal Fall Recruitment, and is a much more informal process.  This process is occurring now! Please email Chelsea Ditz at cditz@umich.edu for more information and see the calendar for events.  We would love to have you!  Girls may be invited over for dinner, to a sisterhood (like pumpkin carving or a movie night), or just over to the house to watch tv to get to know the sisters better.  If she and Gamma Phi Beta are a good fit, she will be extended a bid to join the house.

We also offer the option of Winter Recruitment, which is much like COR except slightly more organized through the Panhellenic Council.  There are a few more formal events included in the process, and several other sorority houses on campus are involved as well so potential new members can get a broader view to help decide which sorority is the best for them.

Panhellenic 2004 Fall Recruitment at the University of Michigan has already taken place.  See above for ways to join if you missed it!

Fall Recruitment offers the biggest opportunity to join Gamma Phi Beta at the University of Michigan each year.  All fifteen sorority houses on campus participate in this exciting and fun-filled process - many girls come out of formal recruitment with friends in many different houses that they got to know as part of their recruitment group.  There are four different rounds in recruitment, lasting about three weeks total (about three days/week): First sets (Mixers) allow potential new members to go to each house and talk with members there, Second Sets introduce the houses' philanthropies, Third Sets include house tours, and Preference Parties are formal events that .  After each set, potential new members are invited to rank the houses each of them visited; ranking is part of the mutual selection process between each potential new member and each house.  Bids are extended to the potential new members soon after preference parties; the bid can be accepted or declined by simply attending or not attending Bid Day events later that day.  Going to Bid Day events implies the new member is Pledging a particular house.  If a member de-pledges, she must wait a year before going through recruitment again and choosing another house that might be a better fit.  This does not happen frequently, however, since most girls find that even if a house was their second choice in ranking, they end up realizing it was a better place for them in the end anyway!  The mutual selection process facilitates this good relationship.