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I can definitely feel for the financial strain you are feeling during these tough times, but I'm not sure what the point of knowing the costs would be at this point either. Would you be advising your daughter to rank her chapters based on their costs? What happens if only the higher cost chapters invite her back and she is in love with one or more of them? Would you require her to drop out of recruitment? What an undue emotion burden to put on a woman already stressed by one of the toughest recruitments in the country.
The time to have discussed how everything would be paid for was before signing up for recruitment. I don't think having your daughter get a small job to help pay for her sorority expenses would be unreasonable, but I think her knowing that might be a possibility beforehand would have helped her weigh whether or not belonging to a sorority would be worth the extra work.
By the way, there are also other expenses to consider that wouldn't be listed on any rate sheet, no matter how inclusive. Thinks like formal dresses, non-sponsored events and trips with her sisters (ie: road trips to games, spring break), gifts for sisters, fines, donations etc. etc. can also add up. So there's really much more to consider than just the costs that have been revealed/not revealed.
Even during the best of times being Greek, especially at a school like Bama, is a luxury. You may simply need to have a frank talk with your children about the current realities of life in your family and re-evaluate whether or not anyone should be taking on the extra expense of being Greek at this point.
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