"Concealing the Calculus of Higher Education"
"Not long after the calculator became standard, a service called College Abacus emerged, allowing families to compare multiple schools at once. That spared them the laborious task of plugging the same data into multiple calculators many times over.
And how did many colleges respond? By blocking College Abacus’s access to their calculators. Imagine if Expedia or Kayak could not search for tickets on some of the most desirable airlines, and you get the idea.
The results of the net price calculators, however, are there for all to see, if only because the federal government forced the schools’ hands. And those schools that deliberately make it harder for families to compare their net prices are sending their own telling signal to the marketplace of applicants."
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/16/your-money/concealing-the-calculus-of-higher-education.html?_r=0
I think this is REALLY important article and would LOVE to see CC parents start to call out ANY college that still make it difficult to compare their FA estimates to other colleges! The arrogance of the responses to the NYT's reporters' questions indicates to me that some college admissions administrators need a wake up call from those being asked to foot most of the bill for their children's [ very expensive] college educations.
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