<p>Depends on how good of a student you are really, one of my friends from california who is a genius was offered enough scholarships to make her tuition cheaper than in-state, but she decided to go to UCLA.</p>
<p>^ Exactly how good should your stats be to get in-state tuition? I heard they are extremely stingy with merit scholarships as well.</p>
<p>You need a 1k scholarships to apply to receive in-state tuition instead of out of state. There is an official page that mentions this somewhere, but I can’t find it right now.</p>
<p>Well, i’m not sure if there’s an official standard of stats, but she had a 3.85 (with AP classes but unweighted) and a 1570 on her SATs, but when we applied it they didn’t count the writing section.</p>
<p>It may have also been offered to her because she used to be a texas resident up until her junior year when she moved to CA.</p>
<p>Will the financial aid be directly deposited into the the bank account we set up on the “what I owe” page? If so, when?</p>
<p>The program that gave money to National Merit Scholars ended in the last year.</p>
<p>If you get an academic scholarship of $1000 or more that is from a specific program at UT that is empowered with to give out tuition waivers, you will receive in state tuition. I think the engineering school offers a number of these scholarships.</p>
<p>^ For undergrads, the cost of attendance is $11,798-12,468, at least based on this: [FINANCIAL</a> AID: 2010-2011 Undergraduate Cost of Attendance (COA)](<a href=“http://finaid.utexas.edu/costs/100undergradcosts.html]FINANCIAL”>Cost & Tuition Rates - Texas One Stop - University of Texas at Austin). That seems ridiculously low. Can somebody verify this?</p>
<p>The number of OOS waivers is extremely limited. Engineering gives out 7 or 8 TOTAL each year.</p>
<p>borkborkbork - That’s per semester. Though it should be about 20k total.</p>
<p>^ Oh, wow, how did I not see that. Yes, that makes perfect sense now.</p>
<p>^^ I heard about that when I called. They said that tuition waivers (those who are exempted completely from paying any tuition) are extremely competitive, but that the number of students who can switch to an in-state tuition from an OOS tuition is unlimited. You just have to get a $1k+ merit scholarship from them.</p>
<p>Well, my son got a 1K engineering scholarship, and when he called to ask about in-state tutition, the lady politely laughed at him. It is called an “out-of-state tuition waiver,” NOT a “tuition waiver.”</p>
<p>MTA: I just looked at the Cockrell website. It says:</p>
<p>"Out-of-state tuition waivers are extremely hard to obtain because the Cockrell School is allotted very few of them for undergraduates each year. Most of these waivers are already promised to students on a multi-year basis as part of a scholarship packet. For any remaining waivers, there is no application process. We award waivers automatically to eligible students with the best academics. 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>Out-of-state students can establish Texas residency a number of ways. Find detailed information on the university’s Establishing Texas Residency page."</p>
<p>It’s interesting to me that they tell you how to establish Texas residency! I know some people on CC get very offended when they hear that out-of-staters would dare try to get in-state residency in order to obtain cheaper tuition. UT seems to see no problem with it, however!</p>
<p>My opinion: I think that the state of Texas decided that students who make the effort to follow the procedures needed to become in-state residents benefit the state of Texas by starting a business or buying a condo plus working and paying taxes in Texas, registering to vote and counting as part of the Texas population. (UT follows the same rules for letting students become residents that all Texas public schools follow. I agree: these rules are considerably easier than the rules most other states follow.)</p>
<p>“For any remaining waivers, there is no application process. We award waivers automatically to eligible students with the best academics. 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><a href=“Financial Support”>Financial Support;
<p>Is this blurb for waivers besides the out-of-state tuition waiver? Because it would be really unfair if it was talking about the out-of-state tuition waiver itself.</p>
<p>I think it’s talking about the OOS waiver - it’s all in the same paragraph. From what I have heard, it used to be much easier to get an OOS waiver, but they’ve really tightened things up.</p>
<p>Then it looks like I’ll have to file for Texas residency, lol. Why on earth would you give a scholarship like that for only one semester?</p>
<p>Well, that’s still worth over $11,000 (maybe a little less if you’re not in engineering, since the tution varies by school), so it’s valuable!</p>
<p>Most likely, if I apply, I’d apply for engineering for 12+ credit hours, which should be about 5k/semester. That means the fee should be about 25k. Hopefully for an EFC of 0, I’ll get about 10k for the year. I don’t know how I’m going to afford 15k, and I am NOT going to take that amount in loans.</p>
<p>If I become a resident, then that would contribute another 6k (from BOT), and hopefully some other scholarships.</p>
<p>Any advice? What are good scholarships for out-of-staters (that aren’t too cut-throat with the competition)?</p>
<p>Did anyone else have to fill out a Parent’s Asset Form?</p>
<p>^anyone???</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of that before.</p>