@freezycool Take @Mamelot advice. What do you have to lose and they may very well meet the offer! Be prepared to prove your offer from OSU and UMN may wait until closer to March to make their final commitment.
Think of this as a poker game. First offer is like initial bet and then everyone reads the others. Final offer is at the end when the end is near and everyone calls in the hands.
The end in this game is March 2016. Be sure of that. OSU is still giving you the carrot of R&B but has not committed on that so they still have that in their hip pocket.
This is pretty much the best/worst situation I could be in. I just got a letter from Miami U offering me their highest scholarship as well, bringing down the yearly cost to $14k, along with an invitation to a major-specific Scholars program… sorta deal, can’t explain it well enough
I’m going to send off an e-mail, asking for a phone call so we can discuss this situation. I’m planning on contacting my specific college’s admissions counselor- is there someone else I should look to?
@am9799, from the Dec. 11 article: “The proposal was presented to the Board of Regents on Thursday, but no formal action is expected until next year.”
Not sure whether that means the increases will begin with next year’s tuition, or the Board will vote definitively on it next year.
We’ll know the 2016-17 tuition soon enough - I would expect any finalized deal to have a press release so if there isn’t one, and the OOS tuition only goes up by a few percentage points (as it has been doing) then we’ll know it hasn’t been finalized yet. OOS accepted students should definitely be shooting some questions over to the FA office to find out how this proposal affects their expected tuition, especially given that it was announced during the application season and after many students had already been accepted.
Thanks @mamelot. Yes that was crazy to announce that stuff after students had been accepted. It is kind of upsetting actually to have no idea in January what the tuition will be.
We received an email about the tuition increase for OOS yesterday. Here is part of it pertaining to the tuition:
<<I am writing with an important update about University of Minnesota undergraduate tuition rates. As you may have heard, a four-year plan to increase the University’s non-resident tuition is expected to take effect fall semester 2016. It is important for you to know, however, that at the same time the tuition increase goes into effect, a tuition discount plan will be implemented to keep out-of-pocket increases to a minimum for currently enrolled non-resident students as they complete their studies here.
The proposed tuition plan will increase published non-resident tuition rates by $3,200 each year for four years. This figure is for full-time enrollment; the exact tuition and fee rates may vary based on a student’s enrollment. Each July, the tuition rates for the coming academic year will be finalized.
The tuition discount program will ensure that continuing non-resident students will pay less than the published increase. This discount will keep their actual increases to no more than $1,500 per year (no more than 5.5% annually). Also each July, the discount plan for the coming academic year will be finalized.
Under these plans, for instance, the fall 2016 tuition rate increase of $3,200 would be offset by a discount so that no continuing non-resident student would pay more than a $1,140 increase (5.5%) for academic year 2016-17. >>
Thanks for posting, @MTnest - this is very specific and helpful and confirms that the tuition increase will indeed go into effect this coming fall. Wording is a bit vague w/r/t new (as opposed to continuing) OOS students. Are you a current student or are you thinking/planning to enroll this fall 2016?
@MTnest I didn’t get that e-mail, was it sent to a specific group of people?
Sidebar: e-mailed my CEHD counselor a couple days ago about receiving scholarship offers from other schools. It’s really making me quite sad. Southern Methodist University would be cheaper to attend, Miami U would be $14k/year, OSU would be $11k/year or even free (I’m interviewing in a month or so).
This really is the school I want to go to! I spent money out of my own pocket to visit, but turns out I’m just not a student worth awarding scholarships to. Which, I understand to a degree. But also [-O< please Minnesota!
freezycool: I believe it was only sent to OOS students currently enrolled at Minnesota to let them know about the tuition situation. Regarding scholarships from Minnesota: Son got his first scholarship in December and then another one in March (this was 3 years ago so I don’t know if they have changed their timeline since then.)
"That would bring the cost to $35,000 in 2020-21, near the midpoint in the Big Ten; resident tuition already is near the conference average.
Regents won’t vote on possible tuition hikes until June, but most support the principles laid out by university President "
First comment: According to the chart 35K will make Minnesota the most expensive school other than Michigan and NW. It is funny they use the word midpoint making people think it will be in the middle…
Second comment: So they ll vote after freshmen commit??
@mamelot
Exactly, they will all be about the same. The word midpoint is a bit deceiving because they use NU’s private and Michigan’s’ private like tuition to calculate the mid.
