College Sticker Shock x 5. Maryland Quints Go From Adorable To Unaffordable In 18 Quick Years. By Amy Argetsinger. May 21, 2001 at 8:00 p.m. EDT.

With rare exceptions, sticker prices at colleges go nowhere but up. In 2012, Sarah Lawrence College in New York crossed a threshold for tuition, fees, room and board that dozens of others have now ...

Beginning this week, college stickers will slide out of the fat envelopes of lucky families all across Boston. My son is a high school senior, so while awaiting his admission decisions, I’ve ...

College Sticker Shock. By Bootie Cosgrove-Mather. September 27, 2006 / 12:57 PM EDT ... State schools, private colleges, the story is the same — many parents are in sticker shock.

The average in-state cost of tuition and fees to attend a public college is nearly 75% less than the average sticker price at a private college, for instance, at $11,011 for the 2024-2025 year ...

Year after year of hefty tuition hikes have put college tuition at many struggling liberal arts colleges in the range of $60,000 a year, but at the same time, the gap between the sticker price of ...

So even for families with income below $40,000, the net COA of attendance at a four-year public college averages $14,610 this year, according to the College Board; for those with income of ...

Public institutions can’t charge high sticker prices. The state won’t let them. At UMass Amherst, for instance, it is set at $31,700 for in-state students. Families with incomes above, say ...

That means college sticker prices — the full “cost of attendance” that the federal government requires colleges to publish — are an increasingly unreliable indicator of what a family will ...

Basically, it’s likely that most families still make decisions based on sticker price, either when a student is college-age, or well before. But the most important reason that sticker price matters is ...