<p>Here: <a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/education/12tuition.html[/url]”>http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/education/12tuition.html</a></p>
<p>While this sounds all well and good and the collages make it out to seem that there is little effect on the actual price the fact is that students from middle class families do not always qualify for the price breaks they offer. The biggest problem though is that once a student qualifies for a scholarship or other non-loan break that aid rarely increases over the next four years to match the ever increasing tuition. They try to make it out to be that there really is no increase in overall cost and no harm done but, paying my own bills, I can assure you that that isn’t exactly correct. In the end what they are doing is perpetuating a cycle that hurts students based on largely anecdotal evidence (increase in applicant pool). The increase in the applicant pool here also correlates with the Top 10 rank status that Ursinus achieved around that same time. The increased tuition benefits the school at the expense of the students who are not rich enough to be able to absorb any change in cost but not poor enough to qualify for more help, which is the category I and many of my friends, here and elsewhere, fall into which is a product of the community we come from, roughly middle class.</p>
<p>"At Ursinus College officials determined that tuition was too low to draw enough students. So they raised it, and applications surged. "</p>