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Originally posted by DGMarie
If you search the websites of most large universities, you'll find a greek page. On many of these I have seen the costs of room and board for sororities. It is important information to have and seems readily available if you do a little searching. U Texas, for one, has it, as does UW-Madison.
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Yup! The Wisconsin Greek website is
www.uwgreek.com and if you visit the pages of individual sororities, most of them have information on how much dues are, if not a complete breakdown of first semester dues, second semester dues, in and out of house dues, and room and board if you're living in. My sorority is one of the only ones that doesn't have that info up, but I don't think anybody would have a problem if I said that we pay around $850 for first semester dues and about $600 for every semester thereafter. Living in costs you $2900-ish a semester all told, and that includes room, board and dues. You can choose to pay either all of it at the beginning at the semester, or get a payment plan and pay every month.
Although some of the figures on the website are misleading. For example, it might be a surprise to see that Gamma Phi Beta's new member dues are only $50, when most of the sororoities range from $500-1000. But what they're not taking into account is the fact that you're not just paying the new member dues, you're also paying the out of house dues (which are around $450, I think). But you can usually figure this out by comparing the numbers -- so it's a good resource anyway.