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The REcruitment process During the week it’s important that your daughter keeps an open mind and looks for a group of women with whom she feels most at home. At times this week may be stressful, confusing, and tiring for your daughter and you may be needed to offer support. Just as the chapters are narrowing down the list of women to whom they extend invitations, your daughter will be narrowing down her list of chapters to which she accepts invitations. The length of the recruitment rounds will get longer as the week progresses in order for your daughter and the sorority women to get to know each other better. It’s important for your daughter to accept all invitations she is given in order to maximize the chance of her pledging the chapter of her choosing. Formal recruitment will take place during the weekends of the first two weeks of classes. At Recruitment Orientation, your daughter will be placed in a Pi Chi group with other women going through sorority recruitment. A Pi Chi is a sorority woman who is disaffiliated from her chapter from early May until Bid Day; the end of sorority fall recruitment. She is there for your daughter throughout the recruitment process to provide her with unbiased guidance, answer any questions and provide a helping hand throughout the two weeks. A Pi Chi group is a great opportunity for your daughter to meet new women on campus in a fun and exciting environment. We find many lasting friendships developed within Pi Chi groups. You and your daughter will also be able to contact the Panhellenic Recruitment Staff and Executive Board at all times throughout the week with questions or concerns. During the recruitment process, your daughter will be able to learn about what each chapter has to offer in terms of academics, service, and sisterhood. She will also learn about the Panhellenic community here at Clemson and the campus life as a whole.
Requirements, Commitments & Expectations ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS While there is no minimum GPA requirement to participate in Clemson Panhellenic’s fall recruitment process, our chapters have GPA requirements that are necessary for selection, pledging and for maintaining social privileges within their chapter. A typical sorority average to extend a membership invitation is a 3.00 cumulative GPA. Women who have below a 3.00 GPA are advised they are at a greater risk to be released from the formal recruitment process due to their academics. For formal recruitment in 2015, high school students who joined a sorority had an average cumulative GPA of 3.7 while transfer and current college students had an average cumulative GPA of 3.3, on a 4.0 unweighted scale. In order to participate in the formal recruitment process, an individual must be registered as a full time student at Clemson University. FINANCIAL REQUIREMENTS Joining a sorority at Clemson does require a financial commitment. Within the Sorority Life Guide book that your daughter will receive at Recruitment Orientation and that will be on the Panhellenic website mid-summer, we have included the new member and returning member dues for all of our chapters. Some chapters’ dues are not all inclusive. For instance, additional expenses such as t shirts and fines may arise during the course of membership and are not included in the initial price listed. The established semester dues are used to operate the chapter and execute social and philanthropy events. Some families choose to take on this expense and some of our women work to pay their own dues. We understand both of these situations occur, but the bottom line is that these payments are mandatory to membership. However your daughter chooses to manage her chapter dues is completely up to your family’s discretion. Our hope is that throughout this process, your daughter will find a chapter that is worth the cost for her because her Panhellenic experience will be priceless.
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