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You have to pay

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You have to pay for everything you get in life. The original poster said she had $3,000 saved up, and would that be enough for her to afford a sorority. The response was without a plan to get more money for the first year and each and every year thereafter, no, and that is good advice. Most of the Greeks at Ole Miss are from upper-middle-class families, some just plain old middle class, with a few truly rich kids thrown. It may seem like there are lots of rich kids because the cost of living and housing in Mississippi is low, and the cost of attending Ole Miss is low, and so there is more money to spend on luxuries. Some families have to struggle a bit to pay fraternity or sorority bills, but it's something they want, and so they pay for it. Other parents don't think it is important, and so they don't pay for it. For an upper-middle-class family, $25,000 over four years simply isn't much money at all, particularly for a student attending an inexpensive school. So sororities are not for the rich only. They are for the rich and the upper middle class, who can just write a check, and the middle class, which has to budget for it and want it. But lower middle class and below will not be able to afford the bills, in all likelihood, and that's just life. It's a luxury.