Continuous Open Bidding

In addition to Primary Recruitment, UK Panhellenic also has an informal recruitment process known as Continuous Open Bidding. Continuous Open Bidding (COB) begins after the conclusion of Primary Recruitment and continues throughout the academic year. COB is recommended for anyone who chooses not to participate in Primary Recruitment or did not match to a chapter during Primary Recruitment. COB offers women the opportunity to be a part of the FSL community and join a sorority through a casual recruitment process. 

Participating sororities will contact Potential New Members (PNMs) by phone, email, or personal visit to invite them to attend their membership activities. Membership recruitment activities might include pizza parties, bowling outings, or movie nights. Keep in mind, interested women will not hear from all the sororities or need to engage with all sororities. Some chapters fill their pledge quota during Primary Recruitment and are not eligible to participate in Continuous Open Bidding; the COB process is mostly self led, but for guidance, contact us via Instagram DMs or email (ukyrecruitmentelect@gmail.com).

The COB process is open to any woman who is a full time, matriculated student at the University of Kentucky and has not signed a Membership Recruitment Acceptance Binding Agreement (MRABA) to match to a chapter during Primary Recruitment that school year. For example, if a student has signed the MRABA and matched to a chapter during 2021 Primary Recruitment, they are not eligible to participate in any Panhellenic recruitment processes at the University of Kentucky until 2022 Primary Recruitment. An easier way to think about it is that you are not eligible if you participated in fall Primary Recruitment, or have been initiated into a chapter (at any point).

Spring 2024 COB Interest Form

If you are interested in signing up for Continuous Opening Bidding for the 2024 fall semester, please fill out the following form: CLICK HERE

Chapters Participating in COB 2024

Gamma Phi Beta

Sorority Interest Form

If you’d like to participate in COB, or in recruitment for UGC or NPHC councils at UK, please fill out the following contact form to let these chapters get to know a little bit about you: Interest Form