You do realize how much kids are paying to come here, right? Over FIFTY THOUSAND dollars. Claiming this is to keep tuition from going up completely ignores the fact that it is just stupidly expensive to go to this school to begin with. Who can afford to send a kid to a college that costs fifty grand a year? Either A) You're so stinking rich that doesn't matter to you, B) You're poor enough that financial aid covers the bulk of it, but your kid is still leaving here with a pile of debt, or C) You're a middle-class family who can't afford to send your kid here with a single check, but make too much for a mostly free ride, so you get screwed both ways and your kid graduates tens of thousands of dollars in debt...with an English degree. You want to fix the problem of kids not being able to afford coming to BU? Cut the price tag by twenty grand. Oh...that's impossible? Well, I guess like Big Banking, BU counted on the credit market to float all those student tuition dollars. Too bad. I guess the real joke is on us, the poor folks who work here.