(05-26-2015 09:43 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  I'm a little worried that Tulane won't offer a huge COA stipend. BC and Vanderbilt - two schools that we're oh-so similar to - have decided to not "play the game" and are offering very low stipends.

I think some of the privates, which might already produce 'sticker shock,' don't want to add a 'higher' COA number. Recall that these numbers apply to all students.

(05-26-2015 10:20 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(05-26-2015 09:43 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  I'm a little worried that Tulane won't offer a huge COA stipend. BC and Vanderbilt - two schools that we're oh-so similar to - have decided to not "play the game" and are offering very low stipends.

I think some of the privates, which might already produce 'sticker shock,' don't want to add a 'higher' COA number. Recall that these numbers apply to all students.

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So does this mean that in-state students are going to see tuition rises of about $3-4k? If that happens, then this is going to get ugly... ...and fast.

Administration is just going to have to cook the numbers even more than they already do.

(05-26-2015 10:39 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  

(05-26-2015 10:20 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  

(05-26-2015 09:43 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  I'm a little worried that Tulane won't offer a huge COA stipend. BC and Vanderbilt - two schools that we're oh-so similar to - have decided to not "play the game" and are offering very low stipends.

I think some of the privates, which might already produce 'sticker shock,' don't want to add a 'higher' COA number. Recall that these numbers apply to all students.

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So does this mean that in-state students are going to see tuition rises of about $3-4k? If that happens, then this is going to get ugly... ...and fast.

Administration is just going to have to cook the numbers even more than they already do.

No - tuition is separate and set. These are projected 'living expenses' -- so experiences could and certainly will vary --- unlike the set cost of tuition.

(05-26-2015 09:39 AM)TIGERCITY Wrote:  When the SEC talks -- we eventually do whatever they say. Be interesting to see how they decide this one >>>

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2015/...affec.html

Tennessee ($5,666) and Auburn ($5,586) offer the most money for full cost-of-attendance not only in the SEC, but in the entire country. Auburn athletic director Jay Jacobs has no problems with his school's high figure. In fact, he told USA Today in February he thinks the high number should be helpful in recruiting....

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Georgia, meanwhile, offers $3,221, according to the Athens Banner-Herald. That's better than some -- Alabama, Texas A&M, Kentucky and Vanderbilt are all below $3,000 -- but could still put the Bulldogs at a disadvantage. Georgia football coach Mark Richt has publicly voiced concerns about the discrepancies between cost-of-attendance figures affecting recruiting.

Good find.

Georgia Administrators are trying to ensure that all COA numbers are basically real/true...and make the process transparent.

UGA administrators, coaches want answers on cost of attendance
http://onlineathens.com/sports/2015-05-2...attendance

Of course, SEC Administrators and Coaches also want to make sure that these COA Payments and Transparency has no impact on the on-going under-the-table cash payment program.

The Financial Aid offices are the ones supposed to be figuring the CoA numbers out, using DoE guidelines. I wonder how many athletic department personnel are secretly nudging the Fin. Aid offices to up their numbers.

(05-24-2015 11:35 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  I like it, more AAC programs having the marbles to implement what others thought was unachievable in this league.

ECU, Memphis, Houston...were not the schools we were worried about.

(05-27-2015 10:21 AM)BearcatMan Wrote:  

(05-24-2015 11:35 PM)BigHouston Wrote:  I like it, more AAC programs having the marbles to implement what others thought was unachievable in this league.

ECU, Memphis, Houston...were not the schools we were worried about.

What schools were "we" worried about?........and who is "we"?

.....and I don't mean that question to come across as aggressively as it probably reads.

(05-26-2015 09:43 AM)oliveandblue Wrote:  I'm a little worried that Tulane won't offer a huge COA stipend. BC and Vanderbilt - two schools that we're oh-so similar to - have decided to not "play the game" and are offering very low stipends.

Well, Tulane's should at the very least be about $2300, because that's the amount they already list for additional costs over tuition, room, and board: http://admission.tulane.edu/aid/tuition.php.

I would imagine schools are using numbers that include more than that (for example, this one adds on transportation that's "variable"), which is why I think $2300 is our minimum.