Word: tuitions
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When Harvard announced its $500 increase in tuition, room and board fees for this year, students took little consolation in the facts that the rate of increase has fallen since 1975 or that this is the first time in recent years that Harvard has not been more expensive than Yale. The $7500 price tag on a Harvard education this year means that the Class of '82 will have to spend at least $30,000 to stay here four years--more if fees go up again--which they undoubtedly will...
...University of Rochester, a small and expensive (tuition, room and board: $7,000 a year) private college in upstate New York, is one of a handful of schools that have taken to holding freshman orientation early and?rarer still?inviting parents along too. While the incoming students spend the 2½-day period registering for courses and meeting their new classmates, they are firmly segregated (to their relief) from their elders. This year, the eighth in which Rochester has conducted the program, some 600 parents of 1,100 freshmen paid a small fee ($33) to learn about university life. Many...
Oddly enough, no qualms are expressed about the coed living, and the parents seem to have only a passing interest in drugs. Said one father with a shrug: "Oh, that stuff has run its course." Few bellyache about the tuition, either. Nor is there much audible concern about whether the kids' costly education will lead to a job. Today, school officials say, parents still seem to prefer a liberal education to a narrowly vocational one. "They are concerned that students not specialize too early," says Goldberg. "Many were caught in the vagaries of the job market themselves...
...help with the $7500 tuition bills...
...fairly easy to borrow from Father Harvard--interest free--while you're still an undergraduate. And if the Senate has its way, some of your parents may be able to receive up to $250 a year from the federal government, in the form of a tuition tax credit. This does not promise to be a good plan, though, because not everyone will qualify for help--i.e., lower-income folks...