<p>I have thought it would be useful if some publication analyzed colleges by how much of a full pay tuition goes to pay for someone else’s child. </p>
<p>In addition to WFU, I have a child at another top 15 school that is also my alma mater. So I get to pay two full tuitions. When the development officer at my alma mater was angling for a larger annual donation, I pointed out that I thought about $10,000 of the tuition was a donation that they took and gave to other students (with grades poorer than my son’s). She revealed that I was not the first alumnus, with a child there, to point that out.</p>
<p>The schools make it difficult to obtain the information needed to calculate, but one site says 44% of WFU students get an average of $19,000 in institutional grant aid. Based on that, it would appear that about $15,000 of the full pay tuition is taken and handed to other students. So unless all of those aid students are pulling 3.7 or better averages, I’m paying $15,000 for students who are not working as hard as my child. No, I don’t feel any obligation to donate to WFU.</p>