For those of us interested in schools in the Northeast, it looks like TE has picked up a new member school – Ithaca College. No data yet though on whether it will be set rate or full tuition.
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We finally toured DePaul (our home school). Most lackluster tour ever, but got my kid to practice the L. I’ll be bringing her back in the fall when students are there! Next week we are checking out Butler.
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I wish we could broker our own deals on here! ; ) DePaul was first choice for kid #1 (didn’t get it) and now is also a frontrunner for kid #2. Here’s hoping!
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DePaul is still a top choice for her and ideal for her major (marketing) but MAN, they did not sell it!
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Hi All!
Thanks for sharing so much info. So helpful! We’re likely looking at BU, Pitt and Villanova for tuition exchange (I know, all long shots for getting one of the few tuition exchange spots!). I appreciate the poster who gave an update on Villanova - was wondering about that.
Glad to have this board as we all navigate the year ahead!
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Those are a tough three! My son is a rising sophomore at Pitt on TE, though, so it happens!
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I have a child who will rule out colleges for similarly silly reasons.
Have you considered Rochester Institute of Technology? A friend’s son got TE there for this year. They have marketing and also have arts, though maybe that are techie arts. I don’t know a lot about it. Rochester is a city, but I don’t know enough about it to say if it’s an urban campus.
Butler SOLD their school on the tour, it is in! Pitt is out. We are visiting Boston in two weeks and will see Suffolk, after that, she applies where she applies and the chips fall where they may.
Top list right now:
DePaul (home)
Duquesne
Butler
SJU
Xavier
BU (reach)
Suffolk
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It would be great if people shared their impressions about college tours on this thread, too.
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Now that the Common App is open, I realized I don’t know whether students applying for TE still use the Common App to apply to the school itself? Do other people, perhaps ones who have been through the experience already, know the answer?
Applications were done like any other student, the tuition but was separate. I am CIC only, so not sure on TE programs. It was also my experience that I handled the waiver information as it was through my HR and liaison.
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Yes, apply with common app. You’ll apply for TE separately.
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which waiver?
We have toured several:
Marquette - we were in a massive tour, the business panel discussion seemed fairly in depth but it was in a large open room and I couldn’t hear as well as I would have liked. Gave me the impression it would not be so personal as a university. The campus was ok, less defined
DePaul - what an awesome location. We took the L from Lincoln Park to the business building. Sad tour. Kid was very much “this is the script I have”.
Duquesne - we were in a small group tour of campus then 1:1 in the business program. So cool, got to see idea lab, talk about specific classes, etc.
Butler - ended up with 1:1 tour of the campus from student tour guide - very well done. Specifically visited the business building again. This is where I realized (and maybe where my daughter realized) that the classroom area feel is important to her. She will go back to DePaul to see what it’s like IN the business building.
Butler and Duquesne have a similar “feel” - contained campus, small campus. (I went to UIUC so I was used to that). This is what my daughter has liked.
Suffolk is scheduled.
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CIC - the school she is at ultimately didn’t offer it (but we are Pell eligible and the aid offered made it doable) and the one school that DID offer it emailed my kid, me, and my CIC liaison (an admissions person at my school) and I had my kid write to turn it down. CIC is full tuition waiver, not a set rate or other number like TE appears to be.
Oh I see, yes, we have CIC too (and TE). I thought you meant an application fee waver.
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Also a number of TE schools are also full tuition. We are only looking at those, and one of the “other” ones (since the condition of its “other” coverage adds up basically to full tuition)
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Has anyone tried to create an account on the new TE website? S25 tried creating an account, but when he inputs all the fields, the system says “Info: Requested username not available; please try again” – but there is no prompt for a username at any point, so that does not make sense. He tried in a couple of different browsers, with the same result.
My daughter did not have any problems creating an account.
The campus is suburban, about 6 miles from city center. The key selling point of the institution is its co-op program and ties to industry. The art and design college covers everything from studio art to American crafts to film to digital design and more.
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