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Seems affordable for a furniture salesman and bank teller with only one child.

You seem to want it both ways...

"Stanley's mom was a bank teller, and her dad a furniture salesman. Obama Sr.'s family lived in grass huts. It doesn't take much to deduce from that that they couldn't afford a journey that would cost around $10,000 in today's (inflation adjusted) dollars ."

Tuition at the University of Hawaii today is around 3300 per semester for an in-state student. It's just a little more at the University of Washington.

What state was she a resident of, while attending the University of Washington in 1962?

To be classified or reclassified as residents, for tuition and fee purposes, students must establish a bona fide domicile in the state of Washington primarily for purposes other than education for the period of one year immediately prior to classification as residents.

Just a little more at the University of Washington? What is your definition of "just a little more"? More than double?

We were talking about who would be footing her college tuition bill. Genreally, that obligation falls on the parents.

Your parents must be proud of you, sucking them dry.

Stanley Ann was 25 years old, already on her second marriage in 1967 when she received her BA in Math. She received her MA in Anthropology 16 years later and her PhD in 1992 when she was almost 50 years old.

What state was she a resident of, while attending the University of Washington in 1962?

Probably not, but she was taking UW extension classes. She was not a matriculated student at the UW. Now extension classes are pretty cheap today, and were even cheaper in 1960, and non-residents pay the same rates for extension classes as residents.

Just a little more at the University of Washington? What is your definition of "just a little more"? More than double?

Did you not even bother to read the link? The UW tution tables you quote give you tuition figure per academic year. The U of Hawaii figure I quoted you is per semester.

So yes, according to basic math, if the UW per-year amount is just a little more than double the UH per-semester amount, then I'd say the two tuitions are pretty close on an apples to apples basis.