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<blockquote data-quote="Deep Purple" data-source="post: 1076600" data-attributes="member: 17"><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Better recalibrate your calculator, because it certainly is.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">As I've pointed out before, that claim unjustifiably assumes that TCU will continue raising tuition at the same uninterrupted rates for the next 15 years. The only way that happens is if the rest of higher education costs similarly keep going up in similar fashion. In that case, TCU will keep pace, retaining its current relative position near the bottom of the price market in its institutional peer group, just as it has done for the past 15 years.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Here's TCU's price rank in its institutional peer group based on 2011-2012 tuition and fees -- the only college costs a student has no control over. For fees, I used only those that apply to all students and eliminated special fees for certain majors or activities.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Duke: $50,300</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Tulane: $43,434</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Northwestern: $41,983</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Wake Forest: $41,576</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Vanderbilt: $41,332</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Emory: $41,164</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Lehigh: $40,960</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Pepperdine: $40,752</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">SMU: $39,430</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Notre Dame: $36,452</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Rice: $35,550</span><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #4B0082"></span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><strong><span style="font-size: 10px"><span style="color: #4B0082">TCU: $32,490</span></span></strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Creighton: $31,894<span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Baylor: $31,658</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Marquette: $30,462</span><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-size: 12px">Drake: $29,556</span> </span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">I don't see an Ivy League school on that list, yet TCU is still near the bottom.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">No. Some do, some don't. Beware of unqualified generalizations like" they provide a lot more aid" and "TCU's cost isnt at the bottom of any list besides ivy league schools." They'll get you in trouble every time.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="font-size: 12px">Relatively low cost within its institutional peer group is one of TCU's most attractive features.</span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Deep Purple, post: 1076600, member: 17"] [size="3"]Better recalibrate your calculator, because it certainly is.[/size] [size="3"]As I've pointed out before, that claim unjustifiably assumes that TCU will continue raising tuition at the same uninterrupted rates for the next 15 years. The only way that happens is if the rest of higher education costs similarly keep going up in similar fashion. In that case, TCU will keep pace, retaining its current relative position near the bottom of the price market in its institutional peer group, just as it has done for the past 15 years.[/size] [size="3"]Here's TCU's price rank in its institutional peer group based on 2011-2012 tuition and fees -- the only college costs a student has no control over. For fees, I used only those that apply to all students and eliminated special fees for certain majors or activities. [size="3"]Duke: $50,300[/size][size="3"] Tulane: $43,434[/size][size="3"] Northwestern: $41,983[/size][size="3"] Wake Forest: $41,576[/size][size="3"] Vanderbilt: $41,332[/size][size="3"] Emory: $41,164[/size][size="3"] Lehigh: $40,960[/size][size="3"] Pepperdine: $40,752[/size][size="3"] SMU: $39,430[/size][size="3"] Notre Dame: $36,452[/size][size="3"] Rice: $35,550[/size][b][size="2"][color="#4B0082"] TCU: $32,490[/color][/size][/b] Creighton: $31,894[size="3"] Baylor: $31,658[/size][size="3"] Marquette: $30,462[/size][size="3"] Drake: $29,556[/size] I don't see an Ivy League school on that list, yet TCU is still near the bottom. [/size] [size="3"]No. Some do, some don't. Beware of unqualified generalizations like" they provide a lot more aid" and "TCU's cost isnt at the bottom of any list besides ivy league schools." They'll get you in trouble every time.[/size] [size="3"]Relatively low cost within its institutional peer group is one of TCU's most attractive features.[/size] [/QUOTE]
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