[Jim]

I feel for you man. . .the rate of tuition increases seems way out of line.

I have a friend that used to work in admissions at Fordham. He often faced grim parents, upset at the price of tuition. He had a pretty interesting answer for them.

The cost to go to Fordham has always been about the same price as a mid-size american sedan. (I think he used Oldsmobile in his example). He had hard examples of the cost of a certain model in '55, '65, '75, '85, etc. and the relation to tuition was almost uncanny.

However, he would continue to explain, there was a day when a family only had one car, homes were more modest, there was no cable, no cell phones, yearly vacations were not taken via airplane, but via car, this list goes on and on - times and what we call "necessary expenses" have changed.

I wish you the best of luck and the previous post-er had some great suggestions that WILL WORK! Hang in there. In the long run, the cost of the tuition will be a bargain as compared to the cost of not having that sheepskin.