TCU 360: TCU tuition to increase in upcoming year

[Brog]

Remember when Texans not in the Top 1% could afford TCU? Those were the days.

When I started, tuition was $15.00 a semester hour, or $450 for the year. But then gasoline was .24 cents a gallon, bread fifteen cents a loaf, school teachers average salary $3,200 a year. If you got a job on campus, it paid .35 cents an hour to help you along the way. But there was no cure for polio, and a number of our classmates got it. But also no one had ever heard of LBGTQIA+ either. So was it a better world?

 

[Frog45]

They just have this article drafted and ready to go each year, right?

 

[Eight]

When I started, tuition was $15.00 a semester hour, or $450 for the year. But then gasoline was .24 cents a gallon, bread fifteen cents a loaf, school teachers average salary $3,200 a year. If you got a job on campus, it paid .35 cents an hour to help you along the way. But there was no cure for polio, and a number of our classmates got it. But also no one had ever heard of LBGTQIA+ either. So was it a better world?

tell us about the scurvy outbreak when the dining hall couldn't get citrus fruit in the winter and tang hadn't been invented yet

 

[West Coast Johnny]

What a rip-off.

 

[Wog68]

When I started, tuition was $15.00 a semester hour, or $450 for the year. But then gasoline was .24 cents a gallon, bread fifteen cents a loaf, school teachers average salary $3,200 a year. If you got a job on campus, it paid .35 cents an hour to help you along the way. But there was no cure for polio, and a number of our classmates got it. But also no one had ever heard of LBGTQIA+ either. So was it a better world?

It was up to $25 an hour when I started. I calculated once that my entire cost for 4 years was slightly less that $10K. Now, during my senior year I had to eat the "Student Special" at El Chico's most days to get by.

 

[allclearforfrogs]

When I started, tuition was $15.00 a semester hour, or $450 for the year. But then gasoline was .24 cents a gallon, bread fifteen cents a loaf, school teachers average salary $3,200 a year. If you got a job on campus, it paid .35 cents an hour to help you along the way. But there was no cure for polio, and a number of our classmates got it. But also no one had ever heard of LBGTQIA+ either. So was it a better world?

Are you prejudice?

 

[An-Cap Frog]

When I started, tuition was $15.00 a semester hour, or $450 for the year. But then gasoline was .24 cents a gallon, bread fifteen cents a loaf, school teachers average salary $3,200 a year. If you got a job on campus, it paid .35 cents an hour to help you along the way. But there was no cure for polio, and a number of our classmates got it. But also no one had ever heard of LBGTQIA+ either. So was it a better world?

Uphill both ways...

 

[Big Frog II]

Uphill both ways...

In the snow.

 

[Brevity Frog]

In the world of tuition price hikes right now, 6% is at the top. I imagine the trustees knew they had some leeway given the inflationary environment and near universal expectation of an increase.

Regarding the California kids, the fact is, schools like TCU need large percentages of students who pay full freight or near full freight. There are not as many Students from families of means in Texas, with high enough marks, who are willing to pay that. But these California families are. That’s my read of the situation anyway

 

[Wexahu]

So $1,904 per hour? Is that math right? Unbelievable.

A parent making $150k/year would basically have to spend about 75% of their after-tax income to send a kid to TCU. I know there is aid for such situations, but how much aid would one get with $150k of income to make it even remotely financially feasable.

 

[tcudoc]

We should have a multi page thread about how TCU is not affordable any more for the middle class or even the moderately wealthy and that none of us can send our kids there because of cost. We can lament the good old days when it wasn’t only the top 3-5% for income or the very poor on full scholarship who could realistically attend TCU.
Rinse and repeat every year. At least it did not rise commensurate with the inflation rate. At least, I don’t think it did.

 

[Wexahu]

We should have a multi page thread about how TCU is not affordable any more for the middle class or even the moderately wealthy and that none of us can send our kids there because of cost. We can lament the good old days when it wasn’t only the top 3-5% for income or the very poor on full scholarship who could realistically attend TCU.
Rinse and repeat every year. At least it did not rise commensurate with the inflation rate. At least, I don’t think it did.

By the time the fall semester starts, it will have risen more than inflation.

I like your idea.

 

[tcudoc]

By the time the fall semester starts, it will have risen more than inflation.

I like your idea.

If you’re not part of the solution, you’re the precipitate.
#chemistryjokes

 

[Brog]

Are you prejudice?

Do you mean prejudiced? No, I'm all for time marching on.

 

[Peacefrog]

We should have a multi page thread about how TCU is not affordable any more for the middle class or even the moderately wealthy and that none of us can send our kids there because of cost. We can lament the good old days when it wasn’t only the top 3-5% for income or the very poor on full scholarship who could realistically attend TCU.
Rinse and repeat every year. At least it did not rise commensurate with the inflation rate. At least, I don’t think it did.

Every year like clockwork.

 

[This Ain't Chopped Liver]

When I started, tuition was $15.00 a semester hour, or $450 for the year. But then gasoline was .24 cents a gallon, bread fifteen cents a loaf, school teachers average salary $3,200 a year. If you got a job on campus, it paid .35 cents an hour to help you along the way. But there was no cure for polio, and a number of our classmates got it. But also no one had ever heard of LBGTQIA+ either. So was it a better world?

I am guessing that you are 90+ years old and I appreciate you participating here with good clear thought for perspective.

 

[LVH]

All those new buildings and more DEI staffers to give struggle session seminars aren't going to pay for themselves!

 

[Eight]

Every year like clockwork.

four constants in life, death, taxes, ticketfrog complaints about tcu qb's, and tuition increases

 

[NewFrogFan]

I am guessing that you are 90+ years old and I appreciate you participating here with good clear thought for perspective.

Gas prices were like that when I was in high school in the 70’s.

 

[Brog]

I am guessing that you are 90+ years old and I appreciate you participating here with good clear thought for perspective.

And I appreciate the "good clear thought" remark. Showed it to my. wife. She laughed.