Wofford’s formal recruitment for spring 2026 took place from Feb. 12 to Feb. 14, with bid day concluding the week on Feb. 15. This sorority recruitment season was much like those in previous years, except for the anticipation of a new sorority next school year. In the 2026-27 college year, Chi Omega will join Wofford College’s campus.
In 2024, Wofford’s National Panhellenic Council began discussions regarding the opportunity to add another organization, though no formal invitations to join the campus had been in talks at the time. In Nov. 2025, Panhellenic and all National Panhellenic Council (NPC) chapters on campus approved the recommendation to invite Chi Omega. This new addition was an exciting announcement for the College, as the Greek community continues to grow in size. The addition of Chi O will allow for more intentional engagement in all chapters as well as a broader eligibility for students to join a Greek organization.
However, little is known publicly regarding how the preparation for Chi O in the Spring 2027 recruitment impacted this 2026 recruitment. At the start of this recruitment, there were 157 girls and by bid day, there were only 115 bids given and 114 girls who ran home.
Throughout the recruitment process, each girl is assigned two Gamma Chis, who are women currently in a Greek organization that disaffiliate to help guide and assist the potential new members (PNMs) through the recruitment process.
Returning Gamma Chi, Sara Strakhov ‘26, shares her perspective on this year’s recruitment.
“There’s not less spots. They accommodate based on how many PNMs are signed up for recruitment, then they allocate quota (for each NPC organization), assuming that some students will drop during the process,” Strakhov said.
This quota is given to each organization on pref night after the PNMs have ranked and signed their MRABA. This year, the quota was 29, meaning each house was allowed to give out 29 bids on bid day.
“Different chapters are now receiving different numbers of COBs to try to get us all at a median in preparation for Chi O, so that we get similar chapter sizes across all 4 chapters alike,” Strakhov said.
In the past, the organization with the biggest chapter on bid day determined the size. For instance, hypothetically, if the largest chapter had 130 members, and a different chapter only had 110 members, that smaller chapter could give out 20 COBs (continuous open bids, bids given out after bid day to those who didn’t run home) to get up to 130. If another chapter had 127, then they could give out three.
Another Gamma Chi in the Spring 2026 recruitment process, Ashley Renner ‘27, explained the changes to get a median size further.
“They average the size of two middle houses, and that number is the highest amount of people you can have in your chapter,” Renner said. “Obviously, some of the houses are over because they just changed it, so those houses were not allowed to give out COBs because they were over.”
This change was all in an effort to create a median chapter size across all four NPC organizations before the addition of Chi O. With that said, even less is known publicly about what the integration and recruitment of a new organization will look like. Many PNMs were curious about the new organization throughout the recruitment process.
“We don’t really know what that will look like. We were encouraging them to stay in the current recruitment process,” Strakhov said.
Aside from Chi O, the most recent NPC organization to join Wofford College was Tri Delta in 2000. Prior to that was Kappa Alpha Theta in 1989, Kappa Delta in 1979, and the founding chapter for the Wofford Panhellenic Community, Zeta Tau Alpha in 1978. It is safe to say the Wofford Panhellenic Community is due for an addition after more than a quarter-century of the same four organizations.
