A look at in-state NMS costs/what she got for first-semester for my freshman Engineering student (with the exception of books, all of this was charged to her Bursar account):
Freshman meal plan (it’s the same price for all freshmen)
Fee to live in Walker Tower
$195 for student season tickets to football (clearly optional)
$250 for Camp Crimson (also optional)
The gazillion other Academic Excellence fees, Engineering fees, CAS, Chemistry fees (she is taking Chemistry 1315, Calc II, the Intro to Engineering class, one other Honors class, and a UCOL class).
Books: we got off ridiculously luck on this one, so husband and I paid for them on our own.
She chose not to get a parking pass.
She had $1,000 in an outside scholarship. She applied this scholarship in full to Fall semester, as well as her $2,000 one-time technology stipend from NMS (she already has a good laptop).
After all was said and done, she ended up $604 in the black for the Fall semester.
Just FYI for any other NMS parents out there looking to get a handle on what Fall semester costs look like.