It's helpful to look at old subscription prices when trying to set new subscription prices. The current price for admission to a single Tuesday dance is $2 for students and $4 $5 for non-students. For (Until the summer of 2007 and before it was $2 and $3.50 . (The increase was for non-students. At that point, it increased to $4 (to include early rounds), where it stayed until summer 2014. For that full time period, it has been $2 for students.)
Class members get their first class free, so to be sure there's a financial incentive for class members to buy a subscription, the subscription period starts the second week of class and finishes the last week of class. This exactly determines the dates of all of the subscription periods. The dates for class are determined by the PE calendar which is related to the academic calendar.
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- During finals (fall and spring)
- Winter break (between finals and IAP)
- Spring break
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Starting in fall 2011, we agree that MIT students (grad and undergrad) would get in for free. That way PE students finishing the class wouldn't have to suddenly pay money, and MIT club members wouldn't be tempted to sign up for the PE class but attend infrequently, just to get in free when they do pay. And the hope was also to further encourage student participation. Other "students" will still pay
Non-MIT college students, children younger than college age, adults in night school who ask for it, and unemployed non-students who ask for it all get the student rate.
In semesters where we're only giving PE credit for one quarter and are charging MIT students for admission, we need to have a subscription rate for ex-PE students. In fall 2010 we charged them $6 for the 7 weeks. In spring 2011 we charged $6 for 8 weeks (including spring break). We also offered finanicial aid for that (sponsored by individual club members and not as a general club policy) such that they could instead pay any amount they could afford, down to $0. The financial aid needs to be offered early enough that people hear about it who would otherwise drop-out of the class due to the cost.
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