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Students rates should also reflect a discount for weeks when they are likely to be out of town or not dancing, for example:

• During finals (fall and spring)
• Winter break (between Between finals and IAP in the winter)
• Spring break

MIT undergrads, grad-students, 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, we need to have a subscription rate for ex-PE students.  The one time this happened (fall 2010) we gave them one week free and charged a rate equal to $1/week for the remaining weeks, for a grand total of $6 for the quarter.  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.

Office Excel
name subscriptions.xlsx

For a time ending Spring 2008 there were two prices for subscriptions -- a small discount for paying on time, and a further discount for paying extra early (the chart lists the lower price).  Sara's theory is that the only reason people don't pay early is that we fail to set the prices far enough in advance, and the dual rate meant that the only slightly discounted rate was barely worth it financially which meant fewer people bought subscriptions and gate workers had to do more work, and so she advocated to get rid of it.  (The one time she had a non-student class member show up two weeks before the class started because they were unemployed and needed the extra discount.)