<p>What do you think about an OOS student applying to UNC? Good idea or bad idea? I really like the school, but their OOS tuition is way to high, and it is much tougher for OOS students to even get accepted. And are there any significant financial aid packages or scholarships for OOS students?</p>
<p>OOS tuition is indeed very high, and will increase by at least 5.6% next year, if not more. I would not recommend UNC to OOS students.</p>
<p>Broadly agree with blue_box, but it depends what your other options are. Are there cheaper places you could go? Or would you be looking at paying the same price to go somewhere else?</p>
<p>I’m applying to elite private schools such as Duke, Georgetown, etc., so I assume tuition will be sky high for those schools as well.</p>
<p>I recommend it. I’m out-of-state. And, actually, it was cheaper for me to go to UNC than my instate school. UNC is VERY generous with financial aid and promises to meet 100% of your financial needs.</p>
<p>I believe UNC released some stats a few months back when they were debating the tuition hikes for next year. Basically, even with the 5.6% hike that blue_box mentions for next year, UNC’s tuition is cheaper than any other peer-public university, and much lower than an elite private.</p>
<p>As babytitan mentioned, need based aid is extremely generous, and in some cases it is cheaper to go to UNC OOS than it would be to go to another state school instate.</p>
<p>Though they do seem to count Berkeley and Michigan as ‘peers’ in that calculation… bit of a stretch.</p>
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<p>You understate, sir.</p>
<p>They have lots of scholarship programs including the Morehead, Robertson to name a couple - Morehead deadline is already passed. You can find this all on the UNC website.</p>
<p>[The</a> Daily Tar Heel :: Thorp asks for highest tuition: Trustees to consider 6.5 percent hike](<a href=“http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/11/thorp_asks_for_highest_tuition_trustees_to_consider_65_percent_hike]The”>http://www.dailytarheel.com/index.php/article/2010/11/thorp_asks_for_highest_tuition_trustees_to_consider_65_percent_hike)</p>
<p>Yay.</p>
<p>My daughter understood that the tuition rate is frozen for a student once they enroll and until they graduate. I think she’s confusing it with the 15 hour rate cap per semester. Are either or both right?</p>
<p>Also, I think we read in the paper while we were there visiting that tuition rate increases are planned for the next four years. Is that true, too?</p>
<p>The tuition freeze is definitely not happening. I don’t know what the 15 hour cap is. I believe the cap is 18.
And yes, major tuition increases are planned for the next few years.</p>
<p>^ I think what she means is that you only pay for 15 hours max? ie 18 and 15 cost the same.</p>
<p>Oh right. Yea, I believe that’s true.</p>