<p>Its not worth the OOS tuition. </p>
<p>Congrats on your acceptance, that shows you have real promise. Now go and develop that promise at a college you can afford to attend. There was a widely reported study a few years back (Krueger et al) that tracked students who got admitted to top colleges, looking at the differences between those who enrolled and those who went elsewhere. In terms of income, which the study looked at, there was none. In other words having been identified as someone with high potential made the difference, not the college attended. Presumably those high-potential students who didn’t enroll at the top colleges still busted their buns where they did go and made the most of what they had available.
Maybe by now you’ve got it, but I can tell you the answer. They do not give grants to cover the OOS portion of tuition. That is 100% loans. The whole point of enrolling OOS students at UC is to bring in extra revenue, and grants would reduce that.
Welcome to the adult world. People take jobs where they are offered, not necessarily where they’d like to live. And so on. It sounds like you have an opportunity to get a fine education, albeit in a place you don’t prefer. So decide what is most important to you… where you live for 4 years in college, or the career field you enter.</p>