Alabama Sorority Costs...Can anyone help?

[bamamama14]

Originally Posted by mikewozowski

i had a quick look at the top row of chapters on the alabama panhellenic page.

here is what i found regarding first year costs for new members:

---------- SEM1, SEM2
AXO ----- 4200, 3500
ADX ----- no financial information provided
ADII ----- no financial information provided
AGD ----- 2777, 2777
AOII ----- no financial information provided
APHI ----- 2700ish, 2400ish (listed each individual fee and i just estimated the total)

living in costs were not quoted for any of these groups. if any of these are not exactly right, then it is possible that i may have missed something, but i am just going off of what was on their PDF as the above poster suggested.

so the info is not necessarily out there and easily attainable. it was there for half of the groups listed, but this doesn't help if the chapters you are interested in (or, more accurately, the ones that are interested in you) do not have info listed.

sure there are ways to remedy the situation with a job, a summer job, payment plans, scholarships, etc, but it is really not unreasonable that someone would be caught off guard that some of the chapters are much higher in cost than what is stated to be the average.

maybe chapters don't want that info out there readily available, but they could list total yearly costs for all chapters without specifying which amount belongs to which chapter. this would give parents and PNMs a truer picture of the actual costs they may be facing.

if someone wants to gather info on the remaining chapters, feel free.

The AGD fees don't include the meal plan, so add another $1500-1600.

[AOII Angel]

Originally Posted by AGDee

I'm just going to point out again, because everybody seems to include meal plans in the "dues" list, that it doesn't make sense to include that. I'd figure the difference between what I'm paying for meals to the University vs. to the sorority. which appears to be about $300, not $1500.00 and that's dining dollars from the looks of the Alabama web site.

(I'm shocked how cheap Alabama is... I see why they get a lot of out of state students!)

Originally Posted by bamamama14

The AGD fees don't include the meal plan, so add another $1500-1600.

LOL...probably the same with any of them that are in the $2400 range.