<p>qdogpa, I had a different reaction to Sewanee’s announcement. Kind of “We know that all of you families are having to tighten your belts and trim your budgets, so we’re going to do the same, and pass the savings on to you.” </p>
<p>I’m curious to see what tuition increases for 2011-2012 end up looking like for a wide variety of schools. I gathered up the COA and tuition numbers for the last five years at D1’s school, and now we have the projected COA and tuition for her freshman year. Astoundingly, the tuition increase for next year is projected to be 1%, as compared to an average of over 4% for the previous four years. Tuition increases for the 2007-08 and 08-09 years were nearly 6%, and dropped down below 4% after that. COA increases are of course higher, but perhaps schools will really make an effort to keep the rate of increase down.</p>