By Chris Maurice Managing Editor We all know how fortunate we are to attend Latin. And we have all been in that awkward position when a relative, friend, or a complete stranger asks us how much is your school’s tuition? The look on their face after our response is never settling. Our parents are making a serious investment into our education. Our futures. But soon that investment into their child’s education may be too much for some families to make. There is much talk about the rising cost of college tuition, which is increasing at a much greater rate than inflation. Students drowning in enormous amounts of debt are completely trapped. Students across the country began talking about the problem, politicians are working to find a solution, so I set off to discover the truth about why college tuition is rising at such a rapid pace. That is what this article originally started off as being: an article about the rising cost of college all students at Latin are eventually going to have to pay and struggle with. But what I soon realized shocked me: Latin’s tuition has been rising at a rate that matches, if not exceeds, the percent change most colleges have raised their tuition. Latin’s current tuition is $31,735, and in 2015 tuition and fees made up $33,535,891, or 78%, of the school’s revenue. Operating expenses at Latin include instruction and instructional support (41%), student services and activities (12%), facilities, capital expenses, and debt service (17%), management and general expenses (14%), financial aid (8%), and towards auxiliary cost (8%). The data collected shows Latin’s tuition from 1983 to today, and each year it has been rising, a common practice for schools; however, the rate at which it was raising became shocking. In 1983 tuition at Latin was  $5,655.00. When adjusted for inflation, tuition in 1983 would equal about $13,500 in 2015, which means the cost per day was roughly $88 a day, 57% lower than the current cost per day of $208. The reason for this increase in cost is the overall improvement in the education students are receiving: there are more students, which means more faculty, who are being paid much more than in 1983, and more activities for students to take part in. It is easy to see tuition in a macro sense, 31 thousand dollars a year, but if you break down the cost of attending Latin on a day-to-day basis, $208 a day, it can change the way you view the education you are receiving. With the help of Lauren Salzman, I collected the historical data of Latin’s tuition and found the percent change year to year. Here is what we found: