The number of future sorority members planning to go through formal recruitment has already topped last year’s numbers — and it still isn’t too late to sign up.

According to the UCF Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life, there are currently 872 women signed up for formal recruitment compared to 833 women who went through recruitment last year.

Monday marked the beginning of spirit week for all of the Panhellenic sororities. The process starts one week before formal recruitment and is put into place so that sorority sisters can practice rushing the potential new members during recruitment.

All sororities take the recruitment process very seriously. Every sister in Greek life must deactivate their Facebook during spirit week and formal recruitment to keep the potential new members from finding out more about the sisters.

The vast majority of girls in Panhellenic sororities are prohibited from going out to local bars and consuming alcohol during spirit week and formal recruitment. UCF fraternity brothers took to twitter to joke about the lack of sorority women at UCF bars.

Women spend countless hours every day during spirit week preparing for recruitment. They go through countless workshops that will help them be able to show potential new members why they think their sisterhood is the best.

Formal recruitment ends on August 22. Potential new members will go through preference night the night before and will rank their top 3 choices. The sororities will pick who they want to join their sisterhood the same night. New members will wake up Saturday morning to find a bid card with their name and the sorority they will spend the rest of their college career with.

If you haven’t signed up for formal recruitment yet, The registration fee is now $85 and registration closes on August 15 at Noon Eastern Time.

Here is a video of last year’s bid day.

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