The New York Times
January 16th, 2011
On Friday, a sophomore at the University of Colorado, Boulder, found a symbolic way to give the school a different way to look at the cost of tuition. The student paid his entire spring semester tuition — all $14,309.51 of it — using dollar bills, a 50-cent piece and a penny.
It took Mr. Ramos two days to withdraw the money from several banks. He said that when he walked into the bursar’s office on Friday morning with a 33-pound duffel bag full of cash, the tellers were stunned and it took three people nearly an hour to count the money.
While tuition at the university has risen in recent years, it has not increased for this student as being from Sacramento, he pays the out-of-state rate, which remains the same for all four years.
Mr. Hilliard a University spokesman said no student in the last decade had tried to pay tuition with bills. But he said he remembered that when he was a student at the university in the 1980s, a fellow student tried to pay entirely with coins. That student was turned away, Mr. Hilliard said.
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