Admissions-Enrollment
Fee Survey
Michael Farr
8 June 2002
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Date: Sat, 8 Jun 2002 04:08:00 -0500
Reply-To: Michael Farr <rfarr@METROTEL.NET.CO>
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From: Michael Farr <rfarr@METROTEL.NET.CO>
Subject: Entrance or Admission Fee
To: HEAD-NET@TC.UMN.EDU
Many thanks to the more than 64 colleagues who responded to my questions on
Admission or Entrance Fee.
All but two of the schools who responded charge an admission fee. This fee
ranges from $200 to $10.000 USD. This fee is almost always used for Capital
Development as opposed to Operations and 93% of those who responded said
this fee is non-refundable. Some of the schools with the highest admission
fees have a policy to refund part of this fee if the family in question
leaves after one or two years. Several indicated that if a family leaves
after one year 50% of the admissions fee is refunded. There was general
agreement that it is preferable to have a policy on refunding a part of this
fee if a family leaves after one or two years as opposed to giving discounts
to families that indicate, at the time of application, they will be staying
only one or two years.
Mike Farr
Colegio Karl C. Parrish