I haven't looked at the old records in a while, but I vaguely recall a sum of $3000.00 a month back in 1984. Plus (and Bill can be 100% more accurate than me with the figures) every, single, thing I came in contact with was billed. My parents paid for a tent, a backpack, a bike, skis (funny, didn't get to take those things home after graduation, dontchaknow), food, clothing, "school supplies", etc etc etc. I estimate between 90 & 100 thousand dollars was paid out by my parents between 1984 & 1986. There was supposedly a sliding scale, to allow poor families a chance, (and to milk rich families?) so for the 110 kids, That adds up to -very- roughly Eleven Million dollars taken in for the 2 years I was there. That's -just- for RMA. I didn't factor in CEDU as they were supposedly more expensive
The popular rumor in RMA was that Mel Wasserman owned three palatial homes. Two in Connecticut (I live there, VERY expensive state) and one in Florida.