Parents of kids in Greek Life, who pays

[Anonymous]

If your adult plans to or is already a part of Greek life, who pays the dues and other fees in your household? The parents or the kids?

[Anonymous]

My friend’s kid asked for dues for his birthday gift. It was in the range of what she would usually buy for him so she did.

[Anonymous]

My DS paid. That’s what a summer job is for.

[Anonymous]

We do

[Anonymous]

I pay, I don't want them to work during school (only summers and breaks) and it's too expensive for them to have to foot the bill. They also go to our instate school so everything else is pretty inexpensive.

[Anonymous]

It also depends on whether or not housing is linked to Greek life. My sister went to a school where there wasn’t enough housing and the Greek houses were where many people lived. They paid her dues and her housing in the sorority house. At my school, it was a more social activity and I paid my much lower sorority dues out of summer earnings.

[Anonymous]

We went halvsies on initial dues ( she didn’t ask , I offered) and she’s planning on covering regular dues going forward

[Anonymous]

At my school, dues+sorority house+sorority meal plan was less than the dorms, so my parents paid.
I paid for all the extra t-shirts, gifts for my little, formal, etc.

[Anonymous]

The answer will be different for different people. For a kid on financial aid, Greek may not make financial sense, unless as posted above, the price to live in Greek housing is cheaper than regular dorms. (We pay for our kid, who chose a school where he has a substantial merit scholarship over another one nearly twice the cost, and we can afford regardless.)

[Anonymous]

What’s the cost- ballpark to join, not necessarily live in the house?

[Anonymous]

As long as the grades stay good and the focus remains on academics we do. It is understood that when the kid starts wavering in anyway that they will be on the hook.

[Anonymous]

How much are sorority dues typically? My DD is talking about rushing a sorority and I know nothing about it at all.

[Anonymous]

My kid is a kid until he graduates and starts supporting himself with a job. Until then, I pay.

[Anonymous]

Our son pays his own dues & expenses. As another poster said, this is what having a summer job is for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What’s the cost- ballpark to join, not necessarily live in the house?

For social dues alone, this seems to vary widely by school and by fraternity/sorority, anywhere from a few hundred per yr to 2k/semester or more.