Interesting to look at CWRU as it was one of S18’s admits with merit aid (of $28K per year) 5 years ago. We budgeted for 4% annual increases and they were almost exactly in line with that figure. It was interesting to compare with GWU (with fairly similar merit) which promised to keep tuition and fees constant once you start.
But UCLA which he chose to attend actually reduced their instate tuition and fees slightly over the four years he was there rather than increasing them (and gave him additional scholarships), so he spent much less than we had budgeted. Like others I’ll be interested to see what happens to tuition when the CA state budget melts down next year.