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[QUOTE="tep624, post: 1039186, member: 430"]
It seems that way because I really wasn't clear about how I feel about the whole discounting concept when it comes to tuition.  I feel that when SU chooses to "discount", it's because they place a greater value on the long-term revenue stream through donations and long-term marketing benefits that the academic scholarship students and athletic scholarship students offer them.  In order to get those students on campus, they have to be competitive with the up front tuition costs because there are other universities out there trying to do the same thing.  They place a greater value on the long-term benefit so they pass up a short-term benefit in order to realize it - it doesn't mean that the full price of tuition isn't realistic.  It's almost like the Bic Razor philosophy.  They don't give the Razor away free to everyone, and there definitely are people out there willing to pay the full price for the razor.  But Bic knows the revenue stream for the blades are more lucrative, so they're willing to pass up the revenue associated with the razor up front to try to get that blade revenue stream from more people.  If they give the Razor away free to everyone, under your concept you'd be saying the razor is worthless.
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