Heck of a way to finish it. Congrats to an Ohio college winning it all at their division
https://x.com/basecollegian/status/2062665406645456936/video/1?s=46
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Hope it’s worth their $369,600 4-year bill
Denison finishes the season at 51-3 and 16-0 in the North Coast Athletic Conference. Two of their three losses occurred in the D-III CWS.
Interesting side note… the women’s basketball team from Denison also won a national championship this academic year. They finished 30-2 (13-1 in the North Coast Athletic Conference).
Pretty darn cool! And how many of them do you think are really paying $395,000? Maybe one who’s daddy is a surgeon and one who’s loving father is a nationally recognized medical malpractice attorney.
That’s some salt there.
My nephew’s team played them in the super regional. They played them tough but Denison just didn’t blink. Glad to see they won it all, makes the losses a bit easier to take!
Denison’s demographics make Miami’s look like a pikey camp. Nobody at Denison is struggling with cost of attendance.
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Ivy League tuition for MAC outcomes!
Inquiring minds want to know, when did Denison University piss in your cornflakes?
Denison may be a rich kids’ school but still not quite as much as Kenyon or Oberlin, per observable data. And we Miamians need to mind all these panes of glass in our own house when pursuing this line of criticism. Our alma mater is great at many things, but its overall economic diversity and upward mobility is pretty crappy for a public university.
Economic diversity and student outcomes at Denison - The New York Times
Miami in-state tuition & fees = $18,500
Dennison tuition = $74,000
18,500 x 4 = $74,000
It’s a horrible value.
I grew up near Dennison so I am more familiar with it. I studied Econ @MU, and happened to know 3 Dennison econ grads who couldn’t find work after school (plural of anecdote =/= data).
No reason these gripes couldn’t apply to Kenyon, Oberlin, etc.
I think it’s an atrocious value proposition.
Since you’re an economist, you can also appreciate the difference between rack-rate pricing and the effective net price. Denison’s rack-rate cost of attendance is even worse than you are presenting. It’s going to be $96,000 next year. But they run a high-tuition/high-aid model (likely to maintain perceived value vis-a-vis other selective private colleges) where nearly everyone from a family with household income under $300,000 receives need-based aid. It’s entirely plausible that a lower income student would get a financial aid package from Denison making it cost less than an Ohio public university, and that 13% of their entering class are first-generation college students suggests that may be the case.
And I didn’t mean to disparage Kenyon, Oberlin, or other Ohio privates. My older son considered Kenyon in his search. My niece had Oberlin as her other finalist in her choices. My younger son applied to Case. All that said, with your view of the value proposition, I suspect I probably shouldn’t say too much more about what we actually did with the DCs.
You’re so familiar with it that you misspelled it multiple times.
Regardless of their value proposition in your eyes, the post was about them winning a National Championship in baseball. In addition to the women’s basketball National Championship, they also won the men’s swimming and diving national championship in March.
D3 is the last bastion of true college athletics. Congratulations to Denison University.
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Jennifer Garner and Steve Carell are Denison University alumni. That’s good enough for me.
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JDad…D3 kids are truly “student athletes” and good for them.
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