College cuts its tuition by 33%

<p>College</a> cuts its tuition by 33% – Schools of Thought - CNN.com Blogs</p>

<p>It’s explained right in the article - it’s not going to change anything for the admitted students, it will just encourage more people to apply, because of the lower sticker price that nobody pays anyway.</p>

<p>He comments that financial aid will be lowered proportionally, but in reality any federal based aid will be cut to educe the COA to exactly the same as it was before the tuition reduction. The article also says the change applies to incoming freshmen and transfer student. Does that mean those already there will still pay the higher tuition, or were they covering themselves to make sure current students don’t try to argue that it should be retroactive?</p>

<p>To my mind, this indicates that the true full-pay students were few and far between are the old tuition rate.</p>

<p>Belmont Abbey College, Belmont, North Carolina</p>

<p>48% off at Ohio State for those OOS students who qualified for *National Buckeye Scholarship<a href=“$12,000%20a%20year,%20$48,000%20for%20four%20years”>/I</a> with ACT >28 or combined SAT Critical Reading and Math scores of 1260 or higher and Top-40% of their graduating class.</p>

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<p>Go Bucks!! :)</p>

<p>A school in West Virginia did this last year too. (Sorry, can’t remember the name right now.)</p>

<p>And Antioch in Ohio did something regarding “free tuition.”</p>