<p>I still have to disagree, and I won’t pick on just ND but all of these top private school. Total costs of >$50K/year, with 4-5% increases per year is not sustainable. Thses school’s financial aid models (except HYPSM) assume the student will take on at least $20K in debts and that parents will borrow out of their home equity.</p>
<p>We are hearing severe complaints from ND parents about the 4.4% increase this year. Some parents have agreed to send their kid to ND but say they are truly scared about the debt they will have to take on.</p>
<p>I just think it is incomprehensible to expect famalies making more $170K/yr to pay $220K for a private school education. At some point this is going to have to stop.</p>
<p>What is also worrisome for ND is that they hardly had any increase in applications this year, even with going to the common app. They admitted more kids, I think this is going to hurt their ranking.</p>