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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why on earth did you let her apply to this school, OMG! the horror! IT's not Catholic and there are sororities on campus. FYI:  My son paid his own frat dues with his summer earnings. Please let her breathe and make her own decision. [/quote]

She did get into to several other state schools- MN, IA, and is waitlisted at Michigan but those are all much closer to home and without the ramped up Greek culture.  She was told to budget between 8-9k for sorority dues/expenses at that school. There is no way she could earn that much from her summer earnings.

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So the big question is how would she feel about the school if she went there and could not join a sorority.  Have you told her you'll pay for school/R&B/textbooks/travel home, but not sorority expenses?  She still gets her choice of college, but not a choice of lifestyle.  Another approach might be to have her do a list of pros and cons for her top 2-3 and see how much the Greek thing is driving her choice.  You could do your own list of pros and cons and compare notes, discussing which issues are dealbreakers, how to mitigate the cons, what needs to happen to take advantage of the pros.[/quote]

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