<p>The estimated financial aid award letter which arrived with D's acceptance included the following:</p>
<p>An itemized bill list of:</p>
<p>Tuition and fees $42,851
Housing and Meals $12,898
Books and Supplies 1,600
Transportation $550
Other Educational Costs $1350</p>
<p>TOTAL : $59,249</p>
<p>If she attends, will her actual bill reflect solely the:
Tuition and Fees and Housing and Supplies line items, the 42K and 12.9K? Or will it also include this "other educational costs" line item? (and at any rate.. does anyone know what this item is or includes??) </p>
<p>She was accepted into Bolton School of Nursing</p>
<p>Here’s what my bill included last semester:
Undergraduate Tuition $20,710.00
Undergraduate Activity Fee $165.50
RTA Transportation $25.00
Health Plan $808.00 (this can be waived if you have your own health insurance)
Room Charges $5,120.00
Board Charges $2,610.00</p>
<p>I believe the books and supplies, transportation, and other educational costs are just estimates of how much you will spend. I’m not actually sure what they mean by “other educational costs”, probably just miscellaneous stuff.</p>
<p>And you get billed per semester, not per year, so divide the tuition and room and board charges you listed in half, and that’s what you will pay per semester.</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch TORCHWOOD. Mind if I ask? Why is your room and board so high compared to the figure they gave us? 12898 vs 15460?</p>
<p>No problem!
I’m a sophomore and I live in The Village, so my housing costs are more expensive than freshman housing costs.</p>
<p>Regular sophomore housing is slightly more expensive than freshman housing, but not as expensive as Village housing, where students can live their junior or senior year (they can also live off campus or in a campus owned apartment, which are cheaper options).</p>
<p><a href=“University Housing | Case Western Reserve University”>http://students.case.edu/living/resources/documents/1314/rates.html</a></p>
<p>Here you go, this page summarizes all housing options along with costs. Ignore the “single with bath” options under first year experience, I’m like 99% sure those rooms do not exist haha.</p>
<p>lol thanks kindly---- a private single with a bath? Yeah that’s a phantom offering I could use myself! ;-)</p>
<p>Though the tuition and fees, and the room and board, is often close, they also can be slightly off. Some fees are mandatory, some are lab or other fees that are determined by the course of study a student chooses, or which school within the college. Room and board can be off, depending on the room selected and the board plan. Some schools have more variance than others. </p>
<p>My friend’s son, ended up in an upper class dorm freshman year, and so his room charges were more. As Torchwood indicates, things like health insurance can depend upon what you already have and what the school charges, and whether they will let you use your family coverage. </p>
<p>Books, supplies, transportation, living expenses, extra money, are all discretionary expenses, in that they can vary widely from student to student, and some are controllable.</p>
<p>Thanks CPT She is very frugal like her parents–thank god… and would have work study too. DH will drive her back and forth from DC if she attends. </p>
<p>Thanks folks for the info, all very helpful. WE’LL SEE HOW it all shakes out in the end.</p>
<p>There are always ways to cut costs. The estimate for books seems a little high. For next semester I’m taking a relatively heavy course load, but the total cost is under $500 if I buy new from amazon. Obviously it’s easy to make this number far lower by renting or buying used. And you can always sell back books after use. In fact, looking at amazon, some of the books I used last semester went up by ~$30-40, so I’ll probably be able to almost break even selling my books. </p>
<p>That’s just one example. Just remember that there are always ways to cut down costs.</p>