<p>I go to a school in Northern Virginia and my college counselor talked to the Richmond admissions department about tuition costs. Apparently Richmond is trying to attract the private school students who normally go to schools liek Duke, all the Ivies, Georgetown, Northwestern, UVa, and the smaller exclusive liberal arts colleges. She said the students at the nation's top private schools, like St. Pauls, St, Anne's, Landon, Episcopal Academy, Commonwealth School, Greenwich and so on, have an increased desire in going south and high priced schools attract, rather than deter, these students. I guess the perception is that these students are both well qualified and their families have the money to increase richmond's endowment.</p>
<p>Ehh...I don't know if increasing tuition is a logical strategy to attract students away from Duke, Ivies, Georgetown, etc. In fact, that seems rather stupid to me.</p>
<p>bump bump bump.</p>
<p>incollege, its the basic principle of economics, they increase the price because they can. it is starting to build a more national reputation and the kids next year wont even remember the tutiton was raised, to them it will be the normal price tag.</p>
<p>anyways GW is the most expensive school in the country and so why kids complain about this, which is 10G cheaper per year even with the tutition increase is beyond me.</p>
<p>I was accepted off the waitlist, and had no idea that tuition had been raised to $40K. The catalogue that was sent had the tuition/r&b as $31K for 2004-2005. Anyone else out there accepted from the waitlist that is deciding what to do? I've sent in my deposit to another school already...not sure what I should do.</p>
<p>which school did you decide to attend?</p>
<p>Bucknell University.</p>
<p>they are very similar, next year i think they will be ranked about the same in USNEWS academically so i guess it depends on what you want socially as well as weather and surrounding city</p>
<p>When I was at Richmond for the CIGNA scholars competition, I told them that I was worried about the lack of diversity. They said that they increased the tuition so that they could make it affordable for low-income students. I think this is a horrible decision. This will only lead to more VERY wealthy students going to Richmond. Sure, some low-income students will be able to go for next to nothing, but I bet almost all of them will not go because Richmond has very little diversity in the first place. I started looking at Richmond because it was one of the better deals for private schools. However, the school increased the costs by 10k in a year and fooled everyone. I got the scholarship, but I still couldn't afford it and had to turn it down. I wish college weren't so expensive nowadays.</p>
<p>college05864:</p>
<p>Please read the informative message posted by Kossitan 05-03-2005, at 10:33 PM and you will better understand why the University of Richmond (a/k/a "The University of RICH- men") is not a university but rather a liberal arts college.</p>
<p>As Kossitan noted Richmond will soon be compared and ranked by US News against LAC's. </p>
<p>Richmond will rank out as a top 30 LAC along the lines of Bucknell, Trinity, Bates, Hamilton, Barnard, Holy Cross.</p>
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<p>college05864:</p>
<p>Please provide me with a cite to prove the bold statement contained in your your post of 05-07-2005, 11:09 AM wherein you alleged:</p>
<p>"Richmond spends more money per student than almost every college and university in the country, with the exception of the majority of the Ivies."</p>
<p>I will await your cite.</p>
<p>here is the cite i think he mentioned, its dated to 2002, but if the trends have kept up there is a possibility it is within the top 15 at this point</p>
<p>wait heres a more current website, its 42, definitely not bad</p>
<p>any other questions otis</p>
<p>college05864:</p>
<p>Let me ask you once again: Please provide a cite for the fact you allege to be true, that "Richmond spends more money per student than almost eveyr (sic) college and university in the country, with the exception of the majority of the Ivies" [a quote from your post #20 in this thread].</p>
<p>The 2 linked articles provided in response to my request for a cite only confirm that the University of Richmond has an impressive endowment. </p>
<p>No where in either article does it state that the University of Rich-men "spends more money per student than almost every college and university in the country" as you would have the world believe.</p>
<p>I will await your cite if one exists.</p>
<p>otis where are you going next year?</p>
<p>otis it's summer and I don't feel like spending my beach time researching answers for you on the internet. However, my high school was ranked as one of the top ten schools in the country for getting kids into top 40 schools by the wall street journal, and for having one of the best college guidance offices in the country. Therefore I have pretty strong faith in my college counselor when she tells me that richmond spends more money than almost all other, non ivy, colleges and universities.</p>
<p>college05864:</p>
<p>Thank you for your above May 31, 2995 reply.</p>
<p>Please provide a cite for the fact you alleged in post #36: that the Wall Street Journal ranked high schools in terms of getting students into "top 40 schools". </p>
<p>I would be interested in reading that Wall Street Journal article. What day did that article appear?</p>
<p>Thank you for your assistance and cooperation.</p>
<p>that is the link to the article
you have to be a member of the wall street journal online in order to access the school rankings</p>
<p>enjoy.</p>
<p>college, how bout you just copy and paste the results since im not a member of the journal</p>
<p>i'm not a member either but i have the copy of the article my school gave me after it came out. Before the results the wsj says that they tested the most expensive and selective prep schools in the country. They looked at how many people out of the past classes went to ivy league schools. Then they looked at how they did with admissions to the top 10 selective schools in the country. They then interviewed ivy admissions officers and asked them what the strongest schools in the country were. I thought it was top 40 but i was wrong. They also looked at current ivy students and alums and looked where they had gone to secondary school. they used all this info to get the numbers. i dont feel like typign all these schools so here are the top 15 in order.</p>
<p>st ann's school
winsor school
trinity school
horace mann school
philiips academy
deerfield academy
nat'l cathedral school
dalton school
hunter coller high school
st paul's
st albans
germantown friends school
the episcopal academy
lakeside school
phillips exeter academy</p>