Oh yeah, Case has also increased room and board by quite a bit too. I was shocked to see that they are now the most expensive school on our son’s list, both in the category of tuition, and for room and board. Case’s dorms are kind of notoriously bad (freshman, at least).
Syracuse has a reputation for being very pricey and Case has them beat now.
I suspect CWRU is bringing their tuition in line with their increasing selectivity and yield protection over the last several years. They do still seem to be generous with financial aid, but yeesh. Maybe the increasing costs are part of a larger campaign to increase their prestige overall. Their info sessions were almost devoid of actual helpful information, and seemed focused on selling people on how impressive the school is. My kid was super frustrated by that but still liked the school.
Will be interesting to see how this goes, and if other schools do similar or different things.
U of Dayton has taken the approach of making everything totally transparent and basically guaranteeing your costs over the 4 years of study. That is a HUGE bonus for us and our son is very attracted by that.