Which Greek system would you want to join?

[Titchou]

Originally Posted by DeltaBetaBaby

Well, somebody in another thread just said that one could expect to pay 8-10K for dues without even living in the chapter house. If that's a real number, I'm gonna go ahead and consider that a downside.

Oh, and I can't remember which school it is that has no problem whatsoever scheduling recruitment over the Jewish high holidays, but I'm gonna go ahead and say that's a downside for a lot of women.

Well, since that includes the meal plan at over $3000 a year and dues and formals and all that other stuff they just "have" to have, it's not so much.

As for the other, I assume you don't have a problem with it being scheduled on Sunday,or Saturday for 7th Day Adventists, or football games, etc on the same. Why are single out the Jewish High Holy Days?

[amIblue?]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Well, since that includes the meal plan at over $3000 a year and dues and formals and all that other stuff they just "have" to have, it's not so much.

As for the other, I assume you don't have a problem with it being scheduled on Sunday,or Saturday for 7th Day Adventists, or football games, etc on the same. Why are single out the Jewish High Holy Days?

Regular Sunday/Saturday worship services are not equivalent. A better comparison might be Christmas or Easter.

[TriDeltaSallie]

My thinking was also Big Ten or another campus with a lot of older, single letter chapters. With nice houses. I would enjoy the tradition aspect of it.

My introverted self would never survive or thrive in a cut-throat SEC recruitment. And I would be lost in a chapter of hundreds of women. Our chapter got to around a hundred before I graduated and frankly that felt too big to be personal.

[TriDeltaSallie]

Originally Posted by Titchou

Well, since that includes the meal plan at over $3000 a year and dues and formals and all that other stuff they just "have" to have, it's not so much.

If being in a sorority had cost that much (even adjusted for today's dollars) I don't think 95% of the women in my chapter (including me) would have been able to enjoy sorority membership. And that would have been a real shame.

[maconmagnolia]

Originally Posted by TriDeltaSallie

If being in a sorority had cost that much (even adjusted for today's dollars) I don't think 95% of the women in my chapter (including me) would have been able to enjoy sorority membership. And that would have been a real shame.

I agree. A lot of my friends are paying for college and sorority membership completely by themselves and could never afford those dues. Our membership dues aren't even half of that (unless you live in house) and we're able to eat lunch everyday at the house. That doesn't include extras like t-shirts for certain events, but you aren't required to buy those.

[DeltaBetaBaby]

Originally Posted by Titchou

As for the other, I assume you don't have a problem with it being scheduled on Sunday,or Saturday for 7th Day Adventists, or football games, etc on the same. Why are single out the Jewish High Holy Days?

If I'm reading this correctly, you just compared a football game to the Jewish High Holy Days, and then you want to know why I might see the SEC as having some "downsides". Clearly, this is not something that you are inclined to understand.