Stated another way - Private school tuition charges are the same for each student no matter where they live.
True?
True. What would be the point?
Almost all private schools have the same tuition regardless of state residency.
There are a few unusual exceptions, like Baylor’s medical school or the semi-public divisions of Cornell.
There are a couple of peculiar hybrid schools. For instance Cornell has a couple of colleges within the university which fall under the SUNY system and have in-state rates.
There are state grants, scholarships, and loans only available to residents. Florida bright futures can be used at private schools, there is a $3000 grant for residents attending a private school (and it is based on public school tuition), there is state financial aid available. At D’s private school, there are scholarships only available to residents(two full ride scholarships per year for graduates of a Florida high school)
The residents and nonresident are not paying the same amounts even thought the tuition is posted as the same amount.
Cornell, according to their presentation at an event last year, said that in effect, however, if you’re receiving financial aid, your costs will be about the same, in state and out of state. Reasoning: If you’re an in-state student, your “need” will be reduced. Lower need = lower aid requirements. What your family can pay stays about the same. It doesn’t go down proportionately. The presenter said that it is a common misconception that in-state students reap the benefit of this lower bill, but because of reasons stated above, most don’t really see a big difference. The big difference clearly would be full-pay families, in state vs out of state.
True
Cornell COLLEGE (in Iowa) now gives $20,000 per year merit scholarships to all admitted students from Iowa. That doesn’t technically change the tuition, but for all practical purposes it makes the school less expensive for many students based solely on their Iowa residency.
I think the ‘scholarships available to instate students’ are more common than it might appear from just looking at tuition rates at private colleges. Whether they are granted by the college or by the states, it is often cheaper to go to an instate private school.
I know of one private university that recently offered 5-6K for OUT of state students. (Bradley)
“Always” and “Never” are really big words for things like this.
Consider the reason public schools have reduced tuition for state residents: the public schools receive cash subsidies from the taxpayers of that state.
Private schools don’t receive cash subsidies from the state; therefore, there’s no obligation for them to give discounts to residents of the state.
Yes it is a true statement with the handful of "exceptions’ that people have already mentioned.
My son got one of those Bradley out of state scholarships. Makes sense. Helps increase name recognition outside the area - we’re now driving/walking around North Carolina with Bradley logos on display.
A scholarship is a separate issue from the sticker price.
Those whose net price after financial aid is lower than the out-of-state list price but higher than the in-state list price would still see a lower price if they were in-state.
http://finaid.cornell.edu/cost-attend lists $50,869 in-state and $67,613 out-of-state for Cornell’s NY state contract colleges (ALS, HE, ILR). A student whose net price after financial aid is would be higher than $50,869 as an out-of-state student will see a discount if s/he were an in-state student, even if his/her net price would be less than $67,613 as an out-of-state student.
Is it until you have to pay it, then you don’t care what it is called as long as it makes your bill go down.
If every instate student gets the money, like the Florida Resident Grant, it really does mean that the private school tuition is less than the OOS students pay. My daughter and her fellow Florida residents are all paying $3000 less than OOS students pay. Tuition is reduced, we never see the money.
The OP asked about tuition, not about net price.
“Private school tuition charges are the same for each student no matter where they live.True?”
The Bradley scholarship was automatic and clearly worded on their web site.
While technically a scholarship, since it’s automatic the distinction gets pretty blurry. “an OOS discount by any other name is just as sweet.”
Okay, everyone at Yale pays the same tuition. Except they don’t pay the same amount to attend.
@ucbalumnus with all due respect, and I appreciate your reasoning, that is not what the admissions officers said at their presentation. I’m paraphrasing, but they said that the in-state students THINK they will get a discount, based on reasoning such as yours, but the costs are almost the same because they award on need, as I explained earlier. The lower costs lower the need, and the aid is lowered as a result, resulting in near equal aid packages. The actual costs to the students is about the same unless you’re paying full freight. Then you will see the discount.
Being an in-state parent, other parents often discuss Cornell as cheaper possibly, and when the admissions officers were asked about this, they explained how this was a common misconception as described above.
As with everything Admissions, YMMV, but this is what Cornell presents to interested parents.