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Your friend is more right. It can cost up to that much for a sorority at USC. However, before I start, I want to say that the cheapest / most expensive sorority won’t matter and it shouldn’t either. It shouldn’t matter because there isn’t that big of a difference in dues anyway between the houses. If you’re actually that concerned about the cost of being in a sorority, think about it this way: is it worth paying that little to be in a house full of girls you don’t get along with? Or is it better to cough up a little extra to be in a house full of girls you really like, get along with really well, and have a lot in common with? Additionally, if you’re concerned about the cost, there’re payment plans and scholarships. So that gives you some cushion, but I’ll be real: there’s only a handful of scholarships and how much they give you depends on the sorority’s national organization and its local chapter. The better the organization does nationally, the better funded the chapter, and the bigger the scholarship awards are. The better the chapter does, the better funding it gets, and the bigger the scholarship. But anyway, to answer your questions, your pledging period / first year as a new member will be the most expensive. As a new member not living in, the cheapest house is $1500 per semester, and the rest are $2000 give or take a couple hundred per semester. Your dues generally include the basics: your basic pledge gear and your philanthropy shirt, exchanges, and invit