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Originally Posted by bamamama14
My daughter's dues run about $3500.00 per semester easy!! That includes $300.00 per semester slush fund for zaps and t-shirts. Freshman year was even more, at least $4000.00 per semester. I told her if she wanted to go abroad in the future, to quit buying t-shirts.
$1500.00 a semester meal plan
$800.00 house fees
525.00 dues
$300.00 10k gold and pearl pin
$300.00 shirts and zaps
a lifetime of memories and friendship... priceless
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So if they are paying for a meal plan at the house, do they get their money back from the university for that meal plan? Or are they buying two meal plans? Just curious. Because that makes a big difference. That seems less than what you pay for a dorm meal plan (at Hypo's school anyway). And, you wouldn't really count that as "sorority fees" if you have to pay it to *someone* either way. If you're paying it twice, that's a different story.
If you don't count the meal plan, got a cheaper badge (you could always upgrade it as a graduation gift or something), and reduced your shirts and photos, you could get by paying considerably less.