<p>Can we start a thread to get a ball park understanding of what it costs to go to a different school from different people? </p>
<p>Please list your annual costs (Total cost of attendance - Grants/Scholarships)</p>
<p>Let me go first</p>
<p>Syracuse - $33K
Villanova - $30K</p>
<p>It would be a better idea to give your family’s income range along with the cost of attendance.</p>
<p>What is the purpose of this? There are FAR too many variables associated with each person’s net cost to make this at all helpful to others. Things like family income, number of family members in college, number of family members, assets, merit aid awards in addition or instead of need based, folks who qualify for simplified needs, kids who get non-custodial parent waivers, etc. etc. etc.</p>
<p>The net costs vary wildly due to each family’s circumstances. There is absolutely NO guarantee that OTHERS will be able to attend either of the schools you mention for the net price YOU are paying (about half of the COA).</p>
<p>ETA…it’s fine if folks want to post their net costs…but MY appeal is that others realize this has NO real relationship to what THEIR kiddo and family might end up paying. None.</p>
<p>I agree with others above that this thread might not be that useful to you - a spreadsheet with your personal information along with the college’s net price results will be better. That said, if you are just curious about numbers, I am willing to share the collection of schools my son considered. We ran net price calculators at a lot of schools, and he got tons of brochures from more prestigious schools, but it was easy to see that most of those were going to be unaffordable (as we would not be doing loans.) Our list included in-state options and out of state with generous merit aid. We don’t qualify for any grants, or subsidized aid. The in-state Florida options listed below include Bright Futures plus estimated scholarships based on stats, but once my son got other offers, he did not bother to finish any Florida applications he started.</p>
<p>So, to satisfy your curiosity, listing COA (tuition, fees, room/board minus scholarships)</p>
<p>1) University of Alabama: $10980 ($36430-25450) Final choice of school</p>
<p>2) University of Alabama (Huntsville): $9186 (31592-22406)</p>
<p>3) University of Mississippi: $4496 (27294-22798)</p>
<p>4) Louisiana Tech: $0 (23372-23372) </p>
<p>5) University of Central Florida: $11292 (16292-5000) $3000 Bright Futures plus estimated additional scholarship</p>
<p>6) University of Florida: $12850 (15850-3000) only Bright Futures</p>
<p>7) University of South Florida: $8910 (15660-6750)</p>
<p>8) Florida State University: $12767 (18167-5400)</p>
<p>Please post actual offers not estimated NPC. Thank you</p>
<p>@Collegebound1111 … I apologize for not being clear enough in my post. I guess the wordiness distracted from the content. Unfortunately, I cannot edit my post so you will just have to deal with the extraneous information.</p>
<p>Actual Offers in the hand, via official letter - Options 1, 2, 3, and 4. Three full tuition offers and one full ride offer. Out of pocket will be exactly what I included above.</p>
<p>My son had other admission offers and scholarship offers from four other private schools but I have chosen not to include those because, other than sending in the applications, and getting the scholarship awards, the chances he was going to actually pursue were close to nil, especially once the full offers started to come in. His out of pocket numbers for those private schools look like yours, even considering significant scholarships, and we are not willing to pay those prices no matter the name.</p>
<p>I made a choice to post the Florida schools, intending to show that sometimes out of state makes more sense than in state (as my post was in response to yours, but would only have some value to some parent like me who is considering their own kids’ situations, and who have likely not considered that going out of state can be a better deal than in state.) That seemed to be of slightly more value than just posting offers in hand. But I guess I could have created my own unsolicited thread, so sorry about the tangential journey :)</p>
<p>I’m with Thumper on this. The info itself is meaningless without other data. I can tell you right now that just about every school in the country will have costs to some people ranging from 0 to Full Cost of Attendance. </p>
<p>And since the OP seems to be including merit aid as well, there are additional factors beyond the financial ones.</p>
<p>My OOP cost at the two Us I applied to and was accepted to: (First year at least) </p>
<p>MSU: $0
U of M: $0</p>
<p>Useless to every other person that isn’t me. </p>