Recruitment Eligibility
A woman is eligible to participate in recruitment and join a sorority if she is enrolled at The University of Texas at Austin as a full-time student. A full-time student is defined as taking twelve credit hours per semester, excluding correspondence courses and courses at other universities.
You must not be a new member or initiated member of any National Panhellenic Conference sorority.
You must attend ALL Recruitment events or you will be withdrawn from Recruitment.
Academic Year and Summer Contacts
The following rules apply to any potential new member, who is a high school senior or junior, or within her first year as a University of Texas student.
Potential new members may not attend any organized sorority function outside of formal recruitment events.
No oral or written invitations can be made to a potential new member by a sorority member or representative to attend any activity or social function.
Potential new members may not be deliberately contacted in any way. This includes telephone calls, letters, and gifts of any sort.
Potential new members may attend local alumnae Panhellenic activities. Legacies may attend one alumnae-sponsored function per sorority to which she is a legacy, as long as that event occurs before June 1, 2006.
Potential new members are strongly discouraged from attending any fraternity activities.
A potential new member may not stay overnight in a sorority house unless she is a sister of a sorority member living in the house.
No more than three representatives from a chapter may converse with a potential new member at the same time and at no time should a potential new member be removed from the general vicinity of the recruitment event.