<p>Does anyone have information on how incoming freshman can receive this? We know in year's past that National Merit Scholars received this........but no longer :(.</p>
<p>If you are going to be at UT for four years and would like to live in Texas after that, it is - in theory - a bit of a hassle but worthwhile to make yourself a Texan - pay oos tuition your first year and get in-state tuition by your sophomore year. In theory, you need to buy a house or a condo somewhere in Texas, change your driver’s license and voter’s registration to Texas, and live in Texas for 12 months - that is, move down after you graduate from h.s. and stay in town over the summer after freshman year too. Get a job of some sort (part time or summer job is fine; you don’t need to work year round) and pay taxes in Texas. Then you fill out a form that says, basically, that you have moved to Texas and it is your permanent residence now.</p>
<p>You don’t have to be self supporting; your rich uncle can buy that condo for you, or your parents can do it. (If you borrowed money from a family member to do this, eventually I suppose you would sell it and give them their money back.) This should be enough for you get in state tuition by the time of your second year. </p>
<p>Or you can get a $1000 academic scholarship from UT that comes with an oos tuition waiver.</p>
<p>Can you give me an example…are they from a particular college? P2? Dean Scholars? Etc</p>
<p>I read that the number of OOS tuition waivers is very limited now, unfortunately.</p>
<p>I think that in Engineering and (especially) Geosciences there is a reasonable possibility that an oos student can get a $1000 academic merit scholarship and this will come with an oos tuition waiver.</p>
<p>This is what the engineering website says - only seven waivers from the engineering school:</p>
<p>Out-of-State Tuition Waivers
To be eligible for an out-of-state tuition waiver, a student must be the recipient of an academically competitive scholarship of $1,000 or more during an academic year. This means that the scholarship must be awarded competitively, considering both in-state and out-of-state students equally. The award must come from School or University resources, meaning it can’t be an external scholarship like one awarded from a student’s high school, etc.</p>
<p>Even if a student meets the eligibility requirements, that does not mean they will automatically receive a tuition waiver. Out-of-state tuition waivers are extremely hard to obtain because the School of Engineering is allotted so few of them each year. We generally only receive about seven each year. Many of the seven are already promised to students on a multi-year basis as part of their scholarship packet. For the few remaining waivers we might have each semester, THERE IS NO APPLICATION PROCESS. We award them automatically to eligible students who have the best academics, and highest GPA.</p>
<p>For those students selected to receive a waiver, the waivers are applied to their tuition bills retroactively after the tuition bills have already been paid and the recipients receive a refund. Recipients are notified by email if they are selected to receive a waiver. If a student is selected to receive a waiver, it will likely be for one semester only, and would not continue further.</p>
<p>Back in 1982 as a junior I was a grader/TA (1/4 time or ten hours) and qualified for OOS tuition waiver. I paid 400 that semester instead of 900 (4 vs 40 per hour). Something like that</p>
<p>If you are a teaching assistant or research assistant in a 20 hour/week funded position in your field of study, this will also yield an oos tuition waiver, under the current Texas Legislative Code.</p>