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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Applications could be falling because W&M is expensive. [/quote]

Has it gotten more expensive? More so than every other college?[/quote]

Certainly not with “every other college.”  Tuition gets frozen after you’re in, which is nice, but entering students get a not insignificant increase.  Good return on investment, in state, in my view.  And pretty good out of state still, I think, if we’re pretty much talking about a core group of out of state students from NJ/NY who didn’t want to go to their bad state schools and were rejected by Ivies (or Duke Duke-like places).[/quote]

W&M uses high tuition to provide relatively high aid.  If you look at average graduate debt, W&M is about the same as UVA and lower than VT, JMU, and GMU.[/quote]

[b]And it’s been fairly successful at “buying” top students with scholarships or partial scholarships.[/b][/quote]

The increase in aid from tuition goes to financial aid, not merit aid.  The merit aid scholarships are privately funded (e.g. 1693 Scholars).  [/quote]

OK, but so what?[/quote]

[b]Simply clarifies that most aid is financial aid, not merit aid.  See abov[/b]e.  [/quote]

NP - but further to clarify, that is true amongst almost all the VA public universities because they are already discounted for in-state. And merit aid has dried up at the Ivies and elite SLACs.[/quote]

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