<p>For a school that is trying hard to market itself and move up the USNWR rankings, I can't help but wonder whether UConn is hurting itself, and the Connecticut residents that it is primarily intended to serve, with aggressive tuition increases. My daughter, who was a top high school student, accepted an offer from an OOS public because of a great merit aid offer that actually made the cost of attendance at that school less expensive than it would have been for her to attend UConn, our in-state public, even after factoring in UConn's financial aid award.</p>
<p>A lot of the private schools I've been accepted to are cheaper than Uconn. Why pay that much for huge class sizes, and student teachers? For the basketball team?</p>
<p>The article is from Dec 2006....I got scared when I saw the thread title, thinking it was for next year!!! I've heard that instate CT students feel that UConn only wants out of state students...but the out of state students feel that UConn is too expensive. I think it's about even with UNH, URI, less than UVM and more than UMaine and UMass and SUNY for OOS.</p>
<p>^You are correct that it is a 2006 article (it was emailed to me recently by a friend of mine whose son is now considering UConn), but I thought it worth posting because of the unbelievable comment made in the article by one of the members of the board of trustees. Talk about attitude . . . geez.</p>