<p>At my son's private school we had two college counselors for a graduating class of about 50. I'm sure it was different in the public schools, even in the well-funded schools in Fairfax County.</p>
<p>My daughters public HS has about 4-5 for 2500 kids!! Granted not all are seniors at one time, but of course they are dealing with the class scheduling, behavior, truancy, etc for all the other classes concurrently with the college process.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly the kids do not get much advice. Even the really ripe targets for major merit aid or need-based full rides (NMS, URM standouts, First Generation kids, Extremely Poor kids, Girls in sciences, etc) get shunted one of two ways: UC, or CC.</p>
<p>It is depressing!</p>
<p>Eastern Oregon University offers in-state tuition to everyone. Tuition and required fees are $5652 per year based on 15 credit hours/term. Room and board are an additional $7200.</p>
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<p>And that's one of the many reasons why we sent our child to a private school. The really good kids in the public schools in the DC area, especially in Montgomery and Fairfax Counties, can, and do, get into the same schools as kids at St. Albans and Sidwell. In fact the larger public schools offer more opportunities than the smaller private schools. We sent our kid to private school because of the mission of the particular school and because of the indivudalized attention he could, and did, get. It was worth the money. The kind of person he is today is in large part the result of where he went to school.</p>
<p>My kids go to a private school and believe me, there are many families that need financial help for college. Just because a kid goes to a private school does not mean the parents are wealthy. some parents scrimp to send their kids and don't have the means to pay 40 K plus each year for college. </p>
<p>No GC has an excuse for not having such lists. THis is their job. All it takes is one person (or one group) to do the initial investigation and then some minor updating each year. once the list is made, most of the work is done. Too many GC are just too lazy because no one really knows what they are doing. Confidentiallity prevents any real oversight of their jobs.</p>
<p>If your OOS child received in-state tuition please post.</p>
<p>Someone on CC mentioned that their kid had been accepted to Michigan Tech. Part of the scholarship was they were only going to have to pay in-state tuition even though they were out-of-state.</p>
<p>A hybrid is the WUE program, where students from member states that are admitted to the program in participating schools pay 150% of resident tuition instead of the regular out-of-state tuition. <a href="http://www.wiche.edu/sep/wue/%5B/url%5D">http://www.wiche.edu/sep/wue/</a></p>
<p>Scholarship recipients at U of South Carolina get in state tuition in addition to their scholarship award (well...at least MY dd did...).</p>
<p>William and Mary offered to pay in-state tuition for me, leaving my family paying the out-of-state difference.</p>
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<p>I'm sorry but I don't understand what you mean by "leaving your family paying the out of state difference". If you received IN STATE tuition, there would be NO out of state difference. The instate tuition is much lower.</p>
<p>No. The award we got was equal to the cost of in-state tuition. People who get this scholarship, if they live in-state, pay no tuition. People who live out-of-state still pay the difference.</p>
<p>edit: <a href="http://www.wm.edu/financialaid/faq.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.wm.edu/financialaid/faq.php</a></p>
<p>scroll to the bottom: I got the William and Mary Scholars award.</p>
<p>garrr! Did the award specifically say that??? I can see why it would be confusing. You might want to check to make sure. The way colleges word stuff can be misleading. They may have reduced your tuition to in-state AND then gave you an in-state award to reduce tuition to nothing. Otherwise, you are right, your portion would still be quite high -- about 12K plus r & b.</p>
<p>Yes, it said that. You can check the link I included: "Awards are equal to the value of Virginia tuition and fees for four years."</p>
<p>Doesn't really matter though, 'cause I didn't go.</p>
<p>In the short run there are a number of students and their families that would benefit from being able to secure instate tuition in states where they don't actually reside. To an extent, it is also beneficial to those educational institutions that, as a result of extending instate tuition are able to admit a more talented student body. With all this good we might wonder why it doesn't happen more often. So we ask, Why do states charge an out of state fee? </p>
<p>Many would argue that the instate tuition reflects the taxpayers continued contribution to the support of the state colleges and universities. It also reflects the voters' decisions to elect officials who will promote quality higher education. Accordingly, a voter/taxpayer whose child is accepted gets the fee/tuition advantage. </p>
<p>I wonder if an exchange program might help here. A Texas student gets to go to Berkeley and a California student gets to a Texas University. One for one trades....</p>
<p>Otherwise I suggest we all encourage our law makers to improve our public universities or consider moving to a state that has better schools and universities. It makes great sense for a state or school to give a reduced tuition to attract academic talent, it makes greater sense for every state to have academic opportunities that few would ever want to leave.</p>
<p>Since the UC system is sooooo popular (very low tuition for in-state and excellent education), it finds it hard to find enuf places for all of its local talent. I don't think they want to open it up. </p>
<p>We are frustrated because we were CA taxpayers for decades before being transferred here. When we were living in CA, we assumed our kids would go to the UC system (great ed, cheap prices) because we lived so close to UCLA, UCI & UCR. We never set aside much for college (income was too low at the time) but didn't worry because tuition is soooo lowwwww there. Then, when boys got older, we got transferred out. Now, if our boys wanted to go to one of these "top tier" schools, we would have to pay OOS tuition (more than 3X higher) !!!! We don't have a "top tier" school in our state. That is frustrating</p>
<p>Actually, there is the option of your children attending a CC, working & gaining residency in CA & then attending a UC as a resident thereafter. You're in the same boat as many others--merit aid is a nice thing if you find schools looking for what your kids offer. Your kids would add geographic diversity to schools who mainly have CA & kids in the region -- that can help get them offered more money.</p>
<p>Check with your local state universities & see whether there are any agreements like WUE between your state & nearby states which you believe have better state colleges, to see if they give special tuition discounts for neighboring states. Your GC should also know this info.</p>
<p>Right, but having to spend ONE year OOS tuition is equal to 3 years in state. Therefore, in the end, you will pay for 6 years worth of tuition for 4 years of education -- not a great deal.</p>
<p>Actually, community college tuition is quite reasonable & the child can gain residency while attending community college. The UCs want kids to spend two years in community college before transferring anyway. There are quite a few kids, including CA residents who are doing this--my CA resident niece among them. The Cal State schools are also considerably cheaper than UCs--we had thought about them, but ultimately, my son decided it wasn't worth it & didn't apply to any UC or Cal State schools, only privates & a state school elsewhere.</p>
<p>We moved from Hawaii five years ago so our kids would have access to decent colleges. The UC system is great and we don't regret leaving those tax dollars we invested in other state's educational institutions. I think it would benefit our students to have top students from around the country and world so I would not object to allowing a percentage of spots going to those top student at our in state tuition.</p>