Anonymous wrote:Haven't received financial info for either one. If you are in state and not needing financial aid, what do you guesstimate you actually ended up spending per year for your student? Including any incidentals like eating out, books, transportation to home etc?

This is going to vary so much-I don't understand why you are asking that.

My senior at W&M in the Business School:

Tuition and fees: $23957
Business School "add on" :$5000
Total tuition & fees - $28957

Apartment off campus: $10000 (this is total - includes utilities, non-refundable security deposit, cleaning fee)
"Commuter" meal plan: $2218
Supplemental $ for food: $1600 ($50 a week so he can buy groceries)
Graduation fee: $145

Total: $42420

If DS were on campus in the most expensive dorm, with the full meal plan, his living expenses would be $15034, so we're "saving" 1200 by having him living off campus. DS did not get a car until he moved off campus. We do not pay for his gas - he has a part time job off campus. I do fill up his car when he's home and headed back to school, but that's only a couple of times a year. We also don't give him spending money. He uses his part time job and summer job for spending money. I do buy him a large supply of toiletries to send him off to school.

His first two years, he took the train to come home. I would buy tickets way in advance, so it would cost $70 round trip. He did the trip four times a year (fall break, Thanksgiving, winter break and spring break.)

Books: This year, they only cost $180. DS rents most of his textbooks. His books have been very inexpensive.

Actual COA for 2021-22: $42880

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Anonymous wrote:I’m in state and not factoring in cars and spending money since kids all have different habits as far as eating etc but I will say books have been much lower cost than it was estimated.

I paid probably just right around $30k this year at UVA.

Wow! Did your kid get some merit or financial grant?
If 30K then it would be far be the cheapest option for us out of all the ones the kid has gotten into!

UVA tuition only is $18,960 a year. The rest is books, room and board etc. you can reduce the overall COA by moving off campus to a group house and doing your own cooking. No car. And keep your child on your own healthcare plan. If I remember correctly, UVA’s was almost $3k.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it cost more for engineering?

yes it does

And about $10,000 more per year for McIntire in junior and senior year.

Anonymous wrote:the most illuminating answer is - much, much less than attending a comparable school elsewhere. Dont even ask, put it on on direct pay.

So far UVA is the 'highest ranked' AND the cheapest university out of all the kid's choices.

the most illuminating answer is - much, much less than attending a comparable school elsewhere. Dont even ask, put it on on direct pay.

W&M sophomore living on campus with full meal plan (not engineering or business), total cost this past year was just under 39K, not including travel back and forth from NoVa.

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Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it cost more for engineering?

yes it does

Yes my Dc is in the College of Arts and Sciences

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m in state and not factoring in cars and spending money since kids all have different habits as far as eating etc but I will say books have been much lower cost than it was estimated.

I paid probably just right around $30k this year at UVA.

Wow! Did your kid get some merit or financial grant?
If 30K then it would be far be the cheapest option for us out of all the ones the kid has gotten into!

No, it’s just been under 15k per semester billed to me. They pile a bunch of things in the estimated costs that never came to be like books, travel, etc.

Next year DC will have an apartment so probably will be more.

Anonymous wrote:Doesn't it cost more for engineering?

yes it does

Doesn't it cost more for engineering?

Anonymous wrote:I’m in state and not factoring in cars and spending money since kids all have different habits as far as eating etc but I will say books have been much lower cost than it was estimated.

I paid probably just right around $30k this year at UVA.

Wow! Did your kid get some merit or financial grant?
If 30K then it would be far be the cheapest option for us out of all the ones the kid has gotten into!

I’m in state and not factoring in cars and spending money since kids all have different habits as far as eating etc but I will say books have been much lower cost than it was estimated.

I paid probably just right around $30k this year at UVA.

As we did not get any aid at all:

W&M - $41,000
UVA - $34,260

Haven't received financial info for either one. If you are in state and not needing financial aid, what do you guesstimate you actually ended up spending per year for your student? Including any incidentals like eating out, books, transportation to home etc?