We just considered then dropped Syracuse from my S2’s list! When one starts at a price like $70k plus like that, chipping away at it with cash. merit and loans makes it hard to get to -0-! I’m with @mistreshijas - until more families start saying NO to the crazy prices and YES to realistic ones who knows where prices will be in a few years. A caveat to that is that in about 7 years (due to lower birth rates) there will be a significant drop in college age kids looking for colleges. Schools like SU will need to start courting rather than hiking prices.
Until then we are enjoying our S1’s excellent LAC where he is studying Nursing - with merit he will get about 2.5 years of college for what one year at SU would cost! Similar great education experience as well.
Pretty generous with merit aid from what I understand. I know kids (I would categorize them as good but not great students. Not Val / Sal types) that attend and receive 100k scholarship over 4 yrs. Would make more sense with merit aid.
I think judging a school by whether you can get tuition to zero is really not reasonable. Syracuse was one of my daughter’s schools 5 years ago and it was the most expensive of her options then - but she was given a merit award that brought it down to par with the least expensive.
CaMom13 How much merit was offered? Grades? Scores? Just trying to get an idea. Thank you!
I had posted above about how the tuition rate increased had far exceeded the rate of inflation.
I came across the Syracuse admitted students brochure for the 1989-1990 school year. Tuition alone was $10,760. (Numbers I showed above included room and board and such)
That amount is equal to about $22,000 in today’s dollars. That would be a much more attainable tuition price. It’s really unfortunate that college tuition in general has far outpaced the rate of inflation.
After merit and financial need awards, Syracuse ended up being our best deal. Also, it was the ONLY school to give us financial need. My S will graduate in 2020 and has had a great experience at SU.