For the multivariate display I chose to take my old graph of tuition cost over time and expand on it and add other data to give the increase in cost something to compare to. I chose to take out room and board and focus on the tuition cost in relation to the number of undergraduates and number of applicants each year. The graph goes from 1998 to 2008, but I had some trouble with the x-axis labels. I could not get them to change from 1-10 ans tried for a very long time and even got help, but they still would not change and I decided that it was better to not include the exact increments if they were going to be wrong. I chose these data sets because RWU has been increasing in size an creditability and I wanted to see if this follows the same pattern as increase in tuition cost. Both the number of applicants and the number of undergraduates has been steadily increasing along with tuition. The number of applicants has had a more drastic increase than the size of the student body, and that line better follows the pattern of tuition increase. This may be because as the University improves and becomes more competitive for admissions they can and need to increase the tuition cost for reasons such as more experienced professors and better facilities.
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