I was in a fraternity in college and I was poor.
I was going to say, I was in Kappa Sigma Fraternity at UF in the late 70s, I live in the house for 2 years.
You had to live somewhere and the Frat House fee for living in the house was cheaper than living in an apartment and comparable to living in a dorm.
You had to eat, we had a meal plan, 2 meals a day for Monday thru Friday, it was a more balanced meal plan than eating out or cooking for yourself and wasn’t that expensive.
My parents were schoolteachers and didn’t have an issue with the cost of being in a Fraternity, it helped my father and brother were both in Fraternities at different schools
The title is way misleading.
Room and board is NOT a cost of being in a sorority. Ya gotta live and eat SOMEWHERE. If she lived in the dorms or an apartment, she’d spend that $10,422 twice a year. That’s about 2/3 of the quoted $30,000 in
sorority fees.
That means it’s costing this girl’s family about $10k a year to be in this sorority. But, again, many of these costs are simply the cost of college life. Going to the bars, throwing parties, etc….it added up.
Now, if she’s arguing that being in a sorority gives her a leg up on the competition across the length of her career, she is right. But this is ONLY insofar as she’s a got an inside track with others in Zeta Tau Alpha. It is possible that a hiring manager who’s a ZTA alum sees her resume, she may get moved to the top of the queue.
However. It cuts both ways. There is a fairly negative stereotype (some would say fact-based bias) against sorority and fraternity members. It is probably MORE likely she’ll get zotted by hiring managers who are anti-Greek system. Now, the hiring manager won’t outright SAY they detest sorority sisters…but it’ll prolly happen.
I would say, however, that living in a fraternity (at least during the Reagan Admin) provided awesome life skills that transcended my major. Negotiating personalities, defusing conflict, working as a team, learning how to conduct a conversation while hideously drunk, taking tests and going to class hung over…I got a lot out of my fraternity experience.
She’s delusional if she thinks this punches her ticket. You are what you make of yourself.