Prospective Members

The Tulane University Fraternity/Sorority Community participates in deferred recruitment, meaning entering first-time first semester freshmen may not join fraternities and sororities. Deferred recruitment allows students the opportunity to adjust to academic life at Tulane before taking on the additional time commitment of a Greek organization.

During New Student Orientation and throughout each fall semester, there are a variety of events, informational sessions, and meetings where students may sign up for more information and meet current members of the Tulane Greek Community. Those events and dates will be listed on the OFSP website and WaveSync. Please contact our office or an organization president with questions.

NOTE: This year, first year students will NOT be permitted to attend social events with alcohol hosted at fraternity houses for the first four weeks of classes (this does not apply to designated fraternity recruitment events, which do not include alcohol).  

Eligibility Requirements

To be eligible to participate in recruitment or intake, prospective members must:  

• be full-time, degree-seeking Tulane students
• have earned 12 hours with a minimum 2.5 cumulative grade point average in those hours.
  • For students whose first semester of enrollment at Tulane will be Spring 2020, at least 6 of those 12 hours must be from graded, college-level courses accepted for credit by Newcomb-Tulane College. Because you will not have a Tulane GPA, we will use grades in all college-level courses you have taken from Summer 2019 forward to calculate your GPA and determine your eligibility. This means we will include any grades below a C if the class is approved to transfer, even though you would not earn Tulane credit, per university policy.  Courses that have not been approved for transfer in to the Newcomb-Tulane College will not contribute toward this calculation.
• be in good standing with Tulane. For the purposes of recruitment and intake, good standing is defined as not having received a Student Conduct sanction of Disciplinary Probation or Deferred Suspension and not having been convicted of any academic integrity violations by the Honor Board.
• not have been found responsible for a drug possession violation
• successfully complete all four components of our Potential New Member Education Series. All information about these programs will be sent at the beginning of each fall semester month to students' Tulane email.
  • Sexual Violence Prevention Programming: options available throughout the fall semester
    • All options and dates may be found on WaveSync
  • Alcohol Education Workshop: TUPHE BUZZ: offered throughout the fall semester through The Well for Health Promotion
    • All workshop dates and times may be found on WaveSync
  • Drug Education Workshop: options offered throughout the fall semester
  • Student's Choice: choose from one approved program from a campus partner below; options offered throughout the fall semester with dates listed in WaveSync
    • The Well for Health Promotion
    • Academic Success Center
    • Office of Multicultural Affairs
    • Community Engagement Advocates
• Specific questions regarding this program can be sent to greek@tulane.edu

These are the minimum requirements set by the University. Each fraternity or sorority has its own policies regarding membership, and many groups have higher requirements.

Please note: The Office of Fraternity and Sorority Programs does not make exceptions to the requirements to join a Greek organization. First year students who withdraw from a course and earn fewer than 12 hours will not be allowed to participate in recruitment or intake. Any issues of academic discrepancies (incomplete courses, contested grades, questions of transfer credit, etc.) must be resolved before recruitment or intake begins. Students should consult the recruitment/intake guidelines for the type of organization they hope to join to find the deadlines for resolving academic discrepancies.

Click on the buttons below for detailed information about recruitment and intake for each council:

Interfraternity Council   Multicultural Greek Council
   

National Pan-Hellenic Council   Panhellenic Council

Unrecognized Organizations

The University does not allow students to join a fraternity or sorority that we do not recognize. Unrecognized fraternities and sororities are not held to the University or governing council standards that govern their behavior. They operate without the oversight, training, and education provided by staff in the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Programs nor by any national organization. These organizations include Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi, "828") Sigma Phi Epsilon (SigEp), Kappa Sigma (Kappa Sig), Sigma Alpha Mu (SAMMY), Pi Kappa Alpha (Pike), Delta Kappa Epsilon (DKE, Deke), and Omega Psi Phi (Omega).