<p>My son received very good scholarships/grants from 5 private schools (including AU) but zero aid from OOS publics George Mason and Penn State. He chose U Miami (FL) which gives generous merit aid for students scoring at least 1350 on SATs. Hope this helps. Good luck with your search.</p>
<p>Neither of those schools is going to give an OOS their need-based aid. Typically publics charge OOS tuition for a reason. It wouldn’t make much sense if they just covered it with need-based aid. Taxpayers don’t like to provide aid to OOS students. </p>
<p>however, some OOS publics will give high stats kids merit scholarships. I don’t know if either of those schools give generous merit scholarships to OOS students. Look at their websites and find out. If they do, the scholarships may be competitive or automatic. Merit scholarships usually do not come from taxpayer money. </p>
<p>What are your stats? If you have high stats, you should apply to the schools that will give assured scholarships for high stats.</p>
<p>Since you know that your parents will pay $15k per year and you can borrow 5500 for frosh year, you need to focus on schools that will be affordable with that budget.</p>
<p>you can apply to some other schools “just to see”, but those schools may not be affordable.</p>
<p>If you are able to increase your scores significantly, you might be able to get some merit scholarships that will make other schools affordable or you might get accepted to some private schools that give good financial aid (but those kind of schools usually need better stats to get accepted).</p>