Question about UCLA Recruitment

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This has been bugging me the last few weeks so I thought I would ask the experts.

I was at a bowl game and was talking to a darling young woman and her mother. The young woman is a freshman at UCLA and was talking about how big it was and fitting in. I asked if she had gone through sorority recruitment. She said that she had gone through recruitment and was asked back to preference by three houses but had dropped out.

At that point, mom stepped in and launched into a diatribe about sororities and how expensive they were. She said her daughter was crushed when mom and dad said they could not afford the cost. (I won't even go into the cost of the trip they were on.) I told her I thought they were very cost effective after the first year. Mom stated that ALL the sororities cost the same (cannot imagine that one) and that it was an extra $4,000 a year. I told her the cost probably included the meals as well and mom declared that meals were over and above the $4,000. At this point, I was not going to argue with someone that I would never see again, but something seems off.

The young woman said that several hundred women dropped out of recruitment when they found out the cost. Something seems REALLY off. Can someone clarify?