Letter to the editor
University needs to stop being cheap and raise scholarships

Since the beginning of my TCU education, I have been very impressed with the level of academics, small teacher-to-student ratio and the steps TCU has taken to make its students feel comfortable. However, I haven’t been impressed with the ever-rising price of tuition. I agree that economic changes force all prices to go up occasionally, but with the rate of tuition increases at TCU, many middle-class students will no longer be able to consider TCU as a choice. Although the stereotypical TCU student is viewed as rich, carefree and drives a Mercedes on Daddy’s money, this is simply not true. The majority of TCU students are on financial aid, working part time or full time and from middle-class families.

I am even more bothered by the fact that scholarships are not being increased to accommodate the tuition rise. Upper-class students have seen their scholarships pay for less and less each semester. In fact, my TCU Scholars scholarship will not even cover one three-hour class next fall.

It’s a shame that TCU is being so ridiculously cheap. Scholarship recipients have worked hard to receive these awards and must work extremely hard to maintain the required GPA to continue receiving these scholarships each year. The least TCU can do is to raise scholarships proportionate to tuition.

I have dreamed of my children someday attending TCU just as I did, but if tuition continues to rise in this fashion, I had better start buying more lotto tickets.

— Sharon Woodruff
sophomore nutrition major

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