Hows the financial aid for Out of State?

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<p>Hi I am from California looking to apply to U-Mich for engineering and I noticed the university's high cost for Out of State applicants.</p>

<p>How is the financial aid for OOS?
Thanks</p>

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<p>Well…it all depends on a variety of factors. They look at applicants as a whole. They do not give automatic $ for a certain GPA/ACT score like some schools…so you would need to give us much more info to go on in order to make an guess. You can go to the Financial Aid web page and look up the huge list of scholarships available and see if you might fit in the criteria listed. Good luck.</p>

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<p>Probably about as good as the UCs are for OOS students.</p>

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<p>My OOS daughter had 800-800-650 (M) on SATs, all As, and a very strong record of ECs and honors. She was accepted into the Honors program at UM and offered a four-year scholarship at $20,000 a year. That sounds nice, but OOS tuition + room and board is $45,000 at UM, making the cost about $25,000 a year after the scholarship. She wound up at Harvard, where the need-based aid was considerably more generous and the bottom-line cost far less. I’d assume that OOS aid at UM will be pretty limited. UM is a high-demand university, and they can afford to use the OOS demand to generate the revenue that keeps their in-state discounted price low.</p>

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No, my package from ucla was A LOT less when I was deciding on colleges. And that was before the budget cut. Michigan gave me more FA than all of the public schools that I got accepted to.</p>

<p>in my case, the FA was pretty okay, but keep in mind it’s a public school…</p>

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<p>I also recall a guy that got the same offer for OOS and chose Princeton. Too bad we could not have gotten that $25K. We got $10K/year and we were doing cartwheels. Enjoy Harvard!</p>