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If I were faced with this issue, I think I'd bring it up with the council and suggest a uniform list of what's include and suggest requiring documentation for what the chapter estimates the cost to be. The documentation wouldn't/shouldn't have to be public, but the chapters should be accountable to someone for the amounts that they list.
If I could make big changes, I'd also require that chapters had to estimate a realistic cost range for four years of participation broken down by semester.
We expect pnms to be members for their remaining years at school, and we project what that full experience will include in terms of socials, formals, events, philanthropy, sisterhood, etc. It seems entirely fair to also make public what it costs to do these things each semester. For example, if it's standard for sophomores to have little sisters, what's the average range that a girl spends?
I think we do a disservice to individuals and groups when we kind of lowball costs by only disclosing what's minimally required in advance.
(Can you tell that I've had a few girls I did recs for who left their respective groups for financial reasons in the last couple of years? While I understand their motivation, it's still kind of messing up their groups and of course they aren't getting the full experience. I wonder if their parents and they had seen a more realistic sticker price for four year of involvement, if things would have worked out differently.But I know that what people feel like they want to do when they are being recruited and what they want to do later after they've lost the HOPE grant or their parents realize how much out of state really is compared to not having that expense is likely to be different.)
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