Alabama Sorority Costs...Can anyone help?

[Titchou]

There was a thread here last year or the year before on this same topic. There is NO way to tell how much it is exactly going to cost because there are too many variables:
does she want a jeweled badge or a plain one; how many tee shirts does she JUST HAVE TO BUY; how many socials can she just NOT STAND to miss; etc, etc, etc. The first year is more expensive because of pledging fees, badge fees, house corp fees andmany others that vary from chapter to chapter. Her food service will get switched to the house so that will wash out as you've already paid that....I assume.

I don't understand how parents let their daughters go thru recruitment with a dollar limit. Seriously, she visits every house and HAS to accept every invitation if she has a time slot or else she will be released. That's the system. So you want her to fall in love with a group of women and then bail? Really? Did you not think that through? If $2400 is the average, you know there are plenty out of the 17 that are higher. Let her find her place and then do whatever you have to do to pay for it. You knew the odss were it would be higher. Let her get a job to pay part of it. There are lots of ways to handle this besides making her go thru this emotional roller coaster of recruitment and then quit. Give up your lattes and pay the tab.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Let her find her place and then do whatever you have to do to pay for it.[...]Give up your lattes and pay the tab.

[BAMA2]

There are definitely many add-ons that can make the experience more expensive. But when the Greek Affairs website specifically says that the avearge cost to live in is $3400 and the average cost to live out is $2100 (both figures are per semester) then I think it would be very misleading to parents to find out that the costs were 2 or 3 times that amount. Certainly, there are more people who have experience at Alabama than I do but girls from our hometown are in a number of different sororities there and I have never heard numbers like $7-8000 being discussed!

[jll]

I did call the Greek Life office and they have no information. I do have info from about 7 of the houses and they are all more than $4000 a year for the first year new members.

Titchou...honestly if it was just a few 'lattes' it would not be a big deal. We did do our research before she started..unfortunately the information on the Greek Life site is inaccurate and there was no way to find that out until she was in the thick of recruitment. I am not talking about 'Extras'. I am only talking about first year fee's which I believe include parlor fee's, education, out of house fee's, new member fee's, food, etc.

Your advice 'to do whatever I need to do to pay it' is neither practical nor realistic. Thanks for taking the time to post.

If anyone at all can help me with real information on cost of houses please PM me. I have the costs for the following: Alpha Gamma Delta, Alpha Chi O, DG, ADPi, Kappa Alpha Theta, Chi-O, Alpha Gam and Alpha Phi.

Trust me they range from $4000 first semester to $2400 first semester costs. Second semester for each of the above is less than first semester - some are almost $600 less than first semester costs. Some are only $200 less.

Thank you

[amanda6035]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Give up your lattes and pay the tab.

BRAVO!!!!