Some U.S. Colleges Cut Tuition, Ending Relentless Price Spiral

"Oberlin College, in Ohio, has cut its tuition by $10,000 for all new students. Nearby Denison University is offering an even better deal for Ohio residents: a $100,000 scholarship over four years. And Davidson College, in North Carolina, has frozen its tuition for the first time in a quarter-century.

The Covid-19 pandemic has upended college life – and college finances – for millions. Now, in a sign of what might lie ahead, it also has begun to check the relentless rise in prices that has strained family finances and pushed the nation’s combined student debt to over $1.7 trillion, as admission deans stare down fewer high school graduates." …

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-18/some-u-s-colleges-cut-tuition-ending-relentless-price-spiral

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Hope it helps some, but two colleges we looked at when searching for DD’19 did this. And…cut their automatic scholarships by a corresponding amount. So maybe it helped some that wouldn’t have gotten auto merit but for us it netted the same.

Beloit restructured how they do things and will match for I think surrounding states their instate tuitions…