Not everyone who goes Greek drinks alcohol.
The New Member educator cares that you feel comfortable–talk to them.
Go to your new member meetings! The New Member educator’s primary responsibility is to care about your transition to the sorority. I wasn’t sure if Greek Life would be for me until my sophomore year when my sisters became some of my best friends. It might take a whole semester just to learn names. You become sisters with 100 girls and getting to know them takes time. A sisterly bond is stronger than friends, right? That bond does not form overnight. A sorority experience is not a perfect one. It’s important to share the exciting moments as well as the overwhelming ones. Be careful with how you paint your experience and be aware of your friend’s feelings. My best friend from freshman year did not go Greek but I take her as my date to different functions and she was always welcome at my sorority house. Invite her to hang out with your friends in your sorority. Only 11% of Ohio State is Greek! Encourage your friend to seek out involvement that provides a similar community – you can find incredible friends in other student organizations. If you have a friend who may really have wanted to try Greek life, but cannot afford it: Our campus should be sensitive to the fact that access to participating in Greek life is limited to those who can pay for it. There is limited socioeconomic diversity. The reality: The majority of students are not paying their Greek life dues on their own. Some chapters have payment plans and additional scholarships – for example, my friend washes dishes to help pay dues. I need to earn $80/week during the 16-week semester to pay for it. $1,280 x 7 semesters = nearly $9,000 over the course of four years. What I wish I had known as a first-year student going Greek: The CostsĪccording the most recent data, the average new sorority member will pay $1,280 per semester. I was completely unprepared for being a member of the Greek Community. I didn’t ask questions about the new member process. I didn’t ask questions about how much it cost. That right there was the extent to which I thought through the decision to sign up for sorority recruitment. In other words, I wanted to be someone’s little, and then be someone’s BIG. I loved high school because of friendships with older girls I admired and then becoming that person who younger girls looked up to. It occurred to me that a sorority might be a way for me to replicate that community of girlfriends that I cherished. I began thinking about signing up for sorority recruitment during my first semester when I felt nostalgic and missing my girlfriends from home, who I had spent endless hours with rehearsing and performing. If you are like me and signed up for formal sorority recruitment on a whim–without any family members who had ever participated–you are probably feeling completely overwhelmed in the weeks following Bid Day. It is the first day in the journey of becoming an initiated, life-long member of a national organization. 
Not only is Bid Day the end of recruitment, it is also the beginning of a whirlwind experience that is joining a sorority.
Bid Day is the final day of the exhausting, two-week formal recruitment process.
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