Where Will You Spend This Semester?

[thegroogruxking]

<p>Sorry to bump such an old thread but I have a question. Did you guys have to pay tuition at your new schools and Tulane for this semester? I ask because I saw in another thread that kids were charged for the fall semester or else they would have to withdraw or forfeit scholarships. Then in this thread, someone said LSU gave them IS rates, implying that she had to pay tuition. Or did some universities accomodate students for free ( kinda hard to believe this day and age). </p>

<p>In this thread, it would be crazy to pay tuition at schools like Northwestern and Cornell on top of Tulane.</p>

<p>Sorry to revive such an old thread and I know the levees are fixed up so if I go to TU I shouldn’t have this question but you never know and I thought it was interesting. </p>

<p>Thanks</p>

[fallenchemist]

<p>Students did not have to pay two tuitions. I won’t swear there was never a time when maybe a State school didn’t charge tuition, but that would have been the rare exception. Here is what President Cowen wrote a few months after Katrina,</p>

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@Scott Cowen

Less than a week after Katrina struck, nine leading higher education associations convened in a conference call to discuss how they could help affected colleges and universities. It quickly became apparent that the most pressing issue was the needs of displaced students. Within 24 hours, these association issued a statement outlining how institutions around the nation might accommodate these students for the fall semester.</p>

<p>I firmly believe that this statement, and all the schools that voluntarily adhered to it, will be viewed over time as the critical factor in the recovery of Gulf Coast colleges and universities. It will also go down in history as a remarkable offer of assistance and support at a time of unprecedented need.</p>

<p>Specifically, the nine higher education associations encouraged colleges and universities around the country to (1) admit students from hurricane-impacted areas only on a visiting or provisional basis, so that they would remain enrolled at their home institutions, and (2) waive tuition if the student already had paid tuition to the home institution—and if the student had not paid the home institution, the host school was to charge the home school’s rate of tuition and remit that amount.</p>

<p>This statement was extraordinary, both symbolically and substantively, for everyone involved. For affected students, it provided an opportunity to continue their college educations this fall. For host institutions, it was a concrete way for them to offer needed assistance. For Gulf Coast institutions, it offered the chance to retain their students while providing much-needed resources to sustain faculty and staff during this difficult time.</p>

<p>The majority of universities and colleges around the country are following the associations’ guidelines, a historic act of altruism that deserves our recognition.

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<p>I think that says it all.</p>

[fallenchemist]

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@me

I won’t swear there was never a time when maybe a State school didn’t charge tuition, but that would have been the rare exception.

Ooops. I think I didn’t say that very clearly. What I meant was that there may have been a rare case where a student had to pay in-state tuition at a state school, although I don’t know of any. If you read that post on this thread about LSU carefully, the person thought in-state tuition was free, implying they were not charged either. Now I don’t think that was case back then, but I suspect the person was not charged anything and just assumed that was “in-state tuition”. In fact of course, LSU would have totally been in agreement with the terms mentioned in President Cowen’s note above. The governor of Louisiana would have insisted on it, if nothing else.</p>

<p>I am rather glad you resurrected this old thread, it is nice to revisit these events and remind ourselves that there are really good and generous people and institutions in this world, despite all the cynicism.</p>