Wondering. If anyone has tried to negotiate with Tulane? PM with your experience if you prefer.
Negotiate what? Your acceptance? Merit aid? Need based aid?
Sorry, more like room and board. Theirs is about 6k more than other schools and freshman and sophomores are required to live on campus. My son had already been offered Merit aid. We are business owners so our income appears high on FASFA and puts us out of reach for need based aid.
If you are wanting to negotiate a discount on housing prices, then you are out of luck. Housing has been notoriously tough to handle these past few years and discounts are just not a thing. Tulane meal plans are also completely non negotiable. If you are wanting to argue to get more financial aid to cover more costs, then you would either negotiate with an equal or better package from a better school (i.e. I can go to Emory for the same costs but I love Tulane. Is there a way I can finance my education at Tulane better?) or wait until those DHS and Paul Tulane people decide not to come and then ask for more money. The trick is to emphasize how much you really want to come to Tulane and then demostrate that despite what your FAFSA says, the current costs are just not possible for your family to cover.
Tulane Room and Board for the year is ~$13K. Please share which universities are only $7K, I have never seen any much under even $10K
Room and board for Wall next year is $15698.
FA is negotiable. Sticker Prices are not.
Have your son/daughter apply to be an RA sophomore year. Free room and stipend towards meal plan.
@dolphnlvr6 that is the plan - do you know if those jobs are hard to get?
@threebeans it is competitive! My son was an RA his sophomore year. What helped him was prior leadership experience in high school and he also recommends getting a job as a Desk Service Attendant freshman year. As soon as the job announcements are out have your son/daughter apply. It helps to have that experience because you get to know the housing staff. Also become friendly with his/her RA and be in good standing. It’s good to have your RA as a reference. The DSA jobs work around students schedule. My son lucked out because he liked the overnight shifts and didn’t mind working weekends - these are paid jobs and you don’t need to be work study eligible.