<p>hmom5, yes, I expect full price plus requests for donations, plus requests for job interviews for grads from her dad, me, aunt, 3 uncles, and anyone else they can find out about.</p>
<p>Ouch hmom. Perhaps we lucked out that we currently are only dealing with one school and made our "annual fund" donation prior to December of last year! The unspoken rule at our school is, "the sooner you give, the sooner they'll stop asking." So far that's been the case... wonder if we'll be hit up again in the spring or early summer if the arent on track for their goal....</p>
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If one means the full cost of educating a student, then nobody pays full sticker price.
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<p>Sticker price means the publicly stated list price for tuition, room, board, and other cost-of-attendance items. </p>
<p>Actually, some students at some colleges pay MORE than the school's expenditures on their own education. Some colleges underbill everyone, because they have strong endowment support, but others overbill at least some students, because student tuition is the main support not only for instructing students but also all other overhead expenses. </p>
<p>Compare Student Related Expenditures / FTE on this table (scroll right to see the expenditure figures) </p>
<p>The</a> Education Trust - Closing the Achievement Gap </p>
<p>to those on this table: </p>
<p>The</a> Education Trust - Closing the Achievement Gap </p>
<p>Colleges vary a lot in how much they spend on the students that attend them.</p>
<p>Definitely paying sticker anywhere D wants to go so she's going instate public.</p>
<p>Modadunn, all of mine are at colleges, I yearn for the days of those "cheap" private school tuitions!</p>
<p>False. Middle class sticker-price payer here!</p>
<p>Yep, full pay plus here, looks like it will be X2 as well, ...ugly thought.</p>
<p>Not only paying sticker price, but when I went to talk to financial aid, they said "I guess you'll have to find a cheaper school." Double ouch!</p>
<p>False.....</p>
<p>At our graduation ceremony last year, they asked graduates to stand, if they were receiving any scholarship money from the college they were planning on attending. I'd guess half of the kids stood up. I'd be surprised if many recieved any need-based aid, but I'd say several of them chose less prestigious school because of the merit money.</p>
<p>False. Full-freight for one now; full-freight for two at the same school starting in September. Got pretty much the same response as ShesOnHerWay when I asked if they knocked the price down for two. Geez, the nursery school did! :D</p>
<p>"but when I went to talk to financial aid, they said "I guess you'll have to find a cheaper school." </p>
<p>That's cold!</p>
<p>I DID get a call/email asking for more, and let them know I was hoping it was about an aid offer AT LAST!, and that without it, we weren't sure we could afford to send her back next year. Haven't heard anything since that....</p>
<p>From Toledo -- </p>
<p>"At our graduation ceremony last year, they asked graduates to stand, if they were receiving any scholarship money from the college they were planning on attending. I'd guess half of the kids stood up. I'd be surprised if many recieved any need-based aid, but I'd say several of them chose less prestigious school because of the merit money."</p>
<p>I find that in poor taste. I certainly hope by Ds school doesnt do that. To ask people to disclose personal info in public???</p>
<p>Hmom.. that's true, but my H just pointed out that we've already dished out 44K in tuition and fees this year. I don't know about you, but I hardly call that cheap. Actually, I think our tuitions are slightly higher than some east coast privates simply because there aren't as many schools (demand/supply economics). However, now our youngest (current hs freshman) is talking about maybe wanting to go to boarding school junior and senior year! Now THAT would make our current tuition look like a bargain!!!</p>
<p>We have 3 kids from our area currently at H. Two pay full fare, one is on a nearly full ride.</p>
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At Amherst, and many other schools, no student pays full cost. We spend much more than we charge on every student, so even our wealthiest students receive a subsidy.
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<p>From a letter to the editor in the New York Times ...</p>
<p>This is what I think they mean when they say "full cost." IF they say "full sticker price," they are misleading.</p>
<p>Every private school, not just colleges, but elementary, middle, high schools that charge tuition, that I have encountered, has made it clear that EVERY student is subsidized. What they mean is that the total costs of running the school is not full covered by the tuition charged. Thus, no one is paying the true cost of going there except for families contributing enough money to the school so that it covers this per student cost figure.</p>
<p>However, when it comes to the published sticker prices of colleges, I can tell you that most of the schools that accepted my kids sure did not offer any discounts. We payed the COA for our oldest. The vast majority of scholarships were less than $5K for each of my kids. </p>
<p>From what I have seen in stats as to the % of student on aid, it looks like about half are not on financial aid through the school. As to how many of those left have outside grants and awards, I don't know. But I do know a lot of folks paying the college's COA. In fact, many pay more than COA when you count all of the costs associated with having a kid in college.</p>
<p>So I guess we should feel fortunate: our son was offered about half sticker off based on merit at a small private LAC. Plus if you turn in your FAFSA form before February 15 you get another $1000 off. They're giving incentives galore.</p>
<p>Oh I turned in my FAFSA yesterday. Maybe I'll get $1,000 off! Even that would help.</p>
<p>Sure isn't cheap Moda, but try three at $50K plus--oh the pain!!!</p>