Counting down from 10, anxious girls awaited the moment when they were able rip open their envelopes and finally find out who their new sisters would be.

The 14 Panhellenic sororities on campus celebrated the end of recruitment during bid day.

Bid day is an important day for all current and future members of greek letter organizations alike because it is when new members are invited to join.

On the final day of recruitment, preference day, women visit their top sorority picks and indicate which organization they “prefer.”

The Panhellenic Council collects cards with the women’s picks and disperses them to the houses and if there is a match between the chapter and potential new member, she will be invited to become a sister.

During the moments leading up to the big reveal, biosystems engineering sophomore Hannah Guyer said she was both nervous and excited to receive her bid card after two weeks of recruitment.

“Recruitment was a lot of long days but it was definitely exciting,” Guyer said. “I just don’t know what to expect and to go through, this is kind of crazy.”

The Rho Gammas, or recruitment counselors, distributed bid cards to their groups of girls who went through the recruitment process.

With large greek letter signs and matching shirts, flower crowns and bows, all the Panhellenic sororities gathered to welcome the women they have chosen to become members of their sorority.

President of Zeta Tau Alpha and social relations and policy senior Lindsey Darling said she has been looking forward to the day for a long time.

“It’s probably the best day of the year in sorority world,” Darling said. “It’s so fun because we finally get a chance to see all the new members in our house, celebrate what it means to be a Zeta and move forward with the rest of the year.”

During the celebration, 75 Rho Gammas also revealed which house they are members of and had been disaffiliated with during the recruitment process to help potential new members find their fit.

Rho Gamma and interdisciplinary studies senior Rachel Blair said that greeting the new girls is exciting.

"(Bid day) is like Christmas because we get to have all these new sisters,” Blair said.

After the bid day festivities at the Rock, the sisters went to their chapter houses to welcome the new members home and celebrate sisterhood.