<p>Hello, I was wondering if more expensive OOS publics such as Michigan and UCs offer financial aid for out of state students. Is most of the info on college board in regard to in state kids?</p>
<p>Neither Michigan nor the UCs offer much FA to OOS students. Typically nothing beyond Staffords unless your stats put you in the top few percentages (think 2%) of all admitted students when you may be considered for merit.</p>
<p>Michigan also requires the CSS profile for FA consideration.</p>
<p>The only major state public unis that guarantee to meet need for OOS students are UVA and UNC.</p>
<p>OOS publics charge high fees for a reason. There’s not much sense in charging these high fees and then just cover them with FA.</p>
<p>FA at state schools is often “state aid” (for instance Cal Grants for Calif kids)…so OOS kids usually can’t get that.</p>
<p>However, some schools give large merit scholarships to OOS kids for high stats. These dollars often come from donors…and not tax-payers.</p>
<p>*Is most of the info on college board in regard to in state kids? *</p>
<p>Yes…because those kids have a lower COA and they can get state aid, so the stats on Colllegeboard (such as % of need met) is VERY misleading when looking at those stats from an OOS perspective. </p>
<p>State schools usually do not have enough money to meet need for their own instate kids, so there would be an uproar if FA were handed out to OOS kids at the expense of instate kids. </p>
<p>Also…keep in mind that the “% of need met” stat only deals with ENROLLED students. That stat does not include the large number of accepted students that got lousy FA packages and couldn’t enroll. </p>
<p>So, an OOS public may have accepted 10,000 OOS kids… BUT…could only meet the need (or come close to meeting the need) of a small number of students because those kids had a high EFC that could be met with a student loan or merit scholarship. So, most of the admitted OOS kids may have to decline and go elsewhere …and their stats aren’t included on Collegeboard or anywhere else.</p>
<p>U-M is not that great for IS students so I can’t imagine it is very good for OOS. Even the merit based scholarships are weak. My son was given a whopping $1500 regent’s scholarship for his 35 on the ACT. Needless to say, he is attending school OOS.</p>