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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"We pay all college related costs."

Not trying to be snarky, for real. How exactly do you see this as related to college? I'd pay for things like a flight to Chicago with her college debate team. Or a season ski pass for a kid at a school where that's the main fun activity. If they need a new trumpet for marching band, sure. I'd help with gas and other incidentals if she and her club were going to do volunteer work, like build trails in a park, for the weekend. The kids doing those activities are having lots of fun socializing together and hanging out while doing their activity. But what's the activity of a sorority? I'd be pissed off that my kid was purposely buying a different outfit that had been designated by the sorority leadership each week. I live right by one of our local DMV universities so every week I see the young women pouring out onto the street wearing the "uniform" for that weekend. Once it was cheerleader skirts with a tube top, all in the school colors. Last week it was high rise light wash jeans with a pastel cropped tank top and hair in a high ponytail. Sometimes it's all black, or ruffled blouses with short shorts. When I first moved here I thought maybe everyone was just shopping at the same store or something. LOL! [/quote]

My DD is in a sorority and in no way is she required to buy the outfit of the week. She does buy different outfits for theme parties but she pays for that herself.[/quote]

The activity is networking/connnections, service to others, leadership opportunities to be on committees and plan events. A lot of my sorority experience has benefited me in my career, collaborating with groups of people different from me. [/quote]

For me, this has not been the case. I had a lot of fun (but it was also a pain toward the end). I have not benefitted from sorority affiliation, at all. And I was a part of one of the really big, national sororities. [/quote]

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