The decision has since been met with several student protests; according to the school's official website, tuition for the 2012-2013 school year was $19,275 per semester, but all registered students have always received full tuition scholarships.
But an academic calendar published by Harvard incorrectly listed the deadline as Wednesday, so university officials said tuition-free withdrawals would be accepted on that day as well.
Officials at tuition-hungry colleges say women's wrestling is an untapped market of prospective students, one that has curiously been all but ignored by bigger universities.
The authorities have said that Mr. Goh planned the killing rampage after becoming angry with school officials over a tuition dispute.
Apparently angry that Oikos refused to refund his tuition, officials said, he bought a semiautomatic handgun in Oakland in February and returned to the campus on April 2.
In a statement, Richard L. McCormick, the university's president, acknowledged that officials were considering tuition increases, and suggested that the kind of increases cited at the rally would be "too large for our students to bear".
At Ithaca, officials project that tuition discounts will result in a net revenue decline of $2.66 million and force the college to carry a $2.5 million deficit, its first since the 1950s.
A handful of smaller, private colleges, however, has slashed tuition; officials at Grace College in Winona Lake, Ind., recently decided to lower tuition by 9% next year.
Groups of legal advocates and students protested the arrest and expulsion of a State University of New York Maritime College student yesterday, claiming the college singled out the student, a Muslim from Nigeria, after he argued with a college official to lower his tuition.
The number of UK university applicants has dropped by 8.7% compared with last year – but school leavers have not overwhelmingly been deterred by the tripling of tuition fees, official figures show.
