At Alpha Phi we have a six-week new member program that begins with Bid Day and ends with initiation. Each week, the new members will meet with our New Member Educator to learn about what it means to be an Alpha Phi, as well as how to become involved on campus to have a successful start to their college careers.

Each week the new member is paired up with an “Ivy Linker” from the sophomore pledge class, and they will do things together that week to get to know each other such as getting ice cream, going on a coffee date, going shopping or going to a yoga class together! 

In the Fall, new members will be paired with their "big sister" after this Ivy Linker Process! This is a great opportunity for new members to find someone who they can lean on for everything. The Big Little reveal is such a fun tradition of ours!

 

As part of their new member program, the new members also participate in "Freshman Retreat," a night of bonding that allows them to get to know their pledge class better. As winter break approaches, they gather at the chapter house to help put up Christmas lights, hang ornaments on the tree, and decorate cookies."​
 

Throughout the new member’s first year in our sorority, she will find these moments and countless others to be lifelong memories while quickly becoming acclimated into Alpha Phi.