<p>We found that states such as Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida offer very little (if any) financial assistance to oos students. If the State of Ohio did the same, they could offer more financial assistance and merit scholarships to the instate students. My son will be attending Ohio State next year. After visiting several of the state flagship universities, including those shown above, we were extremely impressed with Ohio State.</p>
<p>When it came down to the wire, I was deciding between Oberlin and OSU. However, I got a full ride at OSU and would have to pay about 2k at Oberlin. I got great offers from other in-state publics, too. I think they do a great job at attracting the top students. Only a couple of kids from my class of 170 are going OOS, and that's only because we're close enough to WV and PA that I can see WV out of my window and PA is only a short drive through the panhandle.</p>
<p>When my middle daughter was looking at colleges for engineering, she visited OSU only under parental command. OSU is in-state for us.</p>
<p>She and I were both very impressed by the content and design of the engineering program, and by the friendliness and interest displayed by everyone we encountered there. Students just ambling on campus were smiling--hey that's different than most engineering school campuses! </p>
<p>She participated in the Maximus scholarship competition, an essay event. She was the h.s. class valedictorian,and all the usual top scores and such. Her merit aid offer from OSU was less than $5000 a year. I never really understood why it was so low. </p>
<p>She chose to attend a new engineering college where all admitted students receive full tuition scholarships, and her dorm expense was also covered.</p>
<p>OSU has become surprisingly selective over the last dozen years, and seems to be on its way up, academically. I'd recommend to any student who's not intimidated by the school's size.</p>
<p>Chrisd, I know another young Ohioan lady who is going into engineering out of state, at Purdue, because her package from OSU, a more favored choice did not match up to what Purdue offered. Some state schools, Penn State notably comes to mind, just do not give generous merit money. OSU probably falls into that category.</p>
<p>Ohio is not a particularly large exporter of college students as a percentage of high school graduates. It's middle of the pack:</p>
<p>Pennsylvania is the largest net importer of college students. New Jersey the largest net exporter. Here are the largest importers and exporters:</p>
<p>Thanks for the College Board link. I think Minnesota is as high as it is in sending students out of state because many Minnesotans attend University of Wisconsin colleges at in-state tuition rates, as both of my sisters did.</p>
<p>Do DC students get state rates at VA or MD?</p>
<p>No state sends them oos like New Jersey</p>
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<p>I don't think D.C. has very many home-grown college students, certainly not compared to the huge numbers from other states that go to college in DC -- GWU, Georgetown, Howard, American, Catholic</p>
<p>EDIT: According to the College Board, D.C. had 3099 graduating high school seniors in 2006 and 1945 enrolled in four-year colleges in Fall 2007.</p>
<p>Well one of the reasons that Ohio doesn't export a high percentage of graduating seniors could be that some areas of Ohio (like Appalachia) just don't really have very many graduates even going to college. I might be wrong, but it makes sense to me.</p>
<p>Thanks, interesteddad, for the "interesting" statistics. My son is one of those OH high school grads going over to PA. We didn't have any Michigan-takers this year and only one chose Indiana, which is very unusual. I believe OSU froze tuition this year, while Indiana took a dramatic leap for OOS students.</p>
<p>Very interesting. One of my kids was accepted to both OSU and PSU last year. OSU offered a grant that brought the cost of OSU out-of-state down to the cost of in-state PSU. Despite being large public flagships, there were some very signficant differences in certain programs as well as obvious differences between an urban school and a university in a small town. Having been through the application process twice, I've observed that the Ohio schools my kids applied to offered much more financial aid than our own PA schools.</p>
<p>I am a parent in Colorado, and my son chose to go to Ohio University. I'm sure that many in-state kids reject it because of the party reputation and because of the location in Athens (Appalacia). But there were some enormous advantages that applied to him:</p>
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<li><p>Their Media Arts program (in Scripps School of Communication) is fantastic, and the students have many, many opportunities to get involved in all kinds of projects. They have one of the best set of specializations in that program as well, and they seem to be well equipped, equipment and faciliites-wise.</p></li>
<li><p>The were very generous with merit money, and there was no suspense about how much. Certain ACT/SAT scores translate into a certain amount of $$$. My son got 100% of the (in-state) base tuition, and another $4500 per year towards the out-of-state supplement (so, all together, about 75-80% of his tuition was paid for in merit money).</p></li>
<li><p>The Honors Tutorial College is a little-known secret that gives him very personalized attention, additional grants for projects, and practically the keys to the kingdom on that campus (I've posted about it many times).</p></li>
<li><p>Ohio University has a reputation as having some of the friendliest students in the nation.</p></li>
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<p>It is very far for us (we're 1500 miles away), but we haver never regretted his decision.</p>
<p>Another thing I forgot to mention was that the percentage of OOS students at OU is very low (single digits, I think).</p>
<p>My D. graduated at the top of her class. She applied only to one OOS - MSU, and few in Ohio (in-state). She got Merits at every school with the largest at Case Western. MSU offered in-state and some additional benefits. She is at Miami University. They definately have a lot of funds for merits, including a lot of private named scholarships. Her tuition was covered last year. The university added few more thousands $$$ for next year, which will cover some R&B. It made sense for her to stay in Ohio, we would not qualify for need based anywhere. Not mentionning that she is extremely happy with her choice. One more point that we did not predict - she could have been just a face in a crowd at some elite place. Here she has much more exciting opportunities that are only open to the very top students.</p>
<p>Some kids have itchy feet and will do everything possible to go somewhere other than instate or college of parents choice. No amount of incentives will change their determination.</p>
<p>I'm from Ohio but chose to go OOS for college...but it was more about fit than quality of school. CWRU was too science-focused, Oberlin was too rural, OSU was appealing but just too big, and Miami was way too homogeneous (read: it's like 95% white)</p>
<p>Yea, tons of my friends from Ohio chose OOS schools. Whether it was IU (where a surprising amount went) or LAC's or other top (and not so top) OOS schools, a much higher percentage of Ohio students are leaving than in other states it seems like. In Florida, I know of maybe 10 people from my graduating class (600) that went OOS, most stay in state for the State U.'s or the private schools. Bright Futures makes it this way, and even for those who don't qualify schooling in FL is ridiculously cheap.</p>
<p>I plan on leaving Ohio for college. Nothing really wrong with the state, but none of the schools really intrigue me and plain and simple I want to go and experience new things in a new area on my own. Job prospects aren't so hot in Ohio anyway, at least in Cleveland.</p>
<p>It doesn't surprise me that the wealthiest and most competitive states would also have the highest number of students attending college out-of-state. The Northeast especially where if you don't get into a good private school, you bound to go out-of-state where other states have better public universities.</p>
<p>abasket, Michigan has some of the most expensive selective public universities for out-of-state students. Ohio residents have more specific options to choose among universities than neighboring states like Indiana, Wisconsin and Illinois.</p>
<p>For example, if University of Michigan cannot attract Ohio residents, it sure can attract Canadian, Californian and Northeast residents who have no problem paying the high cost for a selective degree. I noticed a lot of Illinois students attending colleges in Michigan too.</p>