Missouri State -Springfield, Southeastern Missouri State -Cape Giradeau, South Dakota St- Brookings

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Does anyonee of have any knowledge of these 3 schools and their cities? The price tag of all 3 schools for OOS students is outstanding. Mo St is about $24,000 and rewards OOS students who are in the top 25% ( soley based on GPA and class rank - no ACT) with a $7400 a year OOS waiver. SE Mo St is a little cheaper ( $22,000) and offers $5000 OOS waiver and SDSU is about $20,000 with no OOS waiver but still a great price tag.

MSU - 26,000 students and D1 sports, 167,000 pop of city
SEMSU - 12,000 students and D1 sports, 40,000 pop of city
SDSU - 12,000 students and D1 sports, 25,000 pop of city

Son has a low ACT of 21 but a GPA of 3.64 ( top 25%) and 4.04 weighted( top 17%). He loves the Univesity of Arkansas but it will be too expensive and ACT score needs to be a 24 for the OOS scholarhip of $10,000. He will take again this fall but has a lot of anxiety on this test - he has taken 3 times already, last time he had a tutor and did well on all the practice test but when it came down to actual ACT test he did not do as well. We also live in Kansas but son does not like KSU, which is a good college.

His interests are landscape architecture and environmental science but more leaning towrds landscape. KSU is too intense and needs a 25 on ACT to get in that program. South Dakota St has an unaccredited program but are working on accreditation. Nice campus and nice smaller town. He’s going to visit Mo St and SE Mo St within the next week. They both have horticulture progarms which tie in with landscape but Mo St has plant science, horticulture, and art/design which all tie into to landscape.

My ex-wife and me can afford about $9000 a year from each of us and we are hoping for sometype of cancer scholarship too for my son as he is 11years out of dx and 10 yrs out of cord blood transplant. We also have an older son who will be a soph at U of Alabama and were are fortunate to only pay $5000 a piece for him due to his great OOS scholarhips.

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I can’t tell you too much on SEMO or SDSU. MSU though is a really great school. Springfield is an amazing city with the metro population of about half a million. It’s the go to city for all the surrounding rural communities, so tons of concerts and events are always going on there. The restaurants there are absolutely fantastic, especially in the area surrounding the campus. I would suggest trying the Aviary in downtown Springfield, they serve both dinner and desert crepes, one of the best restaurants in Springfield in my opinion. Springfield also has a quite low-cost of living. As for the school it is most known for its College of Education, though all its programs are still very good and would probably outrank SEMO and SDSU. The campus is large but it is not so large it takes 10 minutes to walk across. I can’t say I know anything about their architecture program, or if they even have one. I would also like to note that MSU has the an amazing music program and I know several people who have chosen MSU over other schools so they could be in the MSU Pride Marching Band. The school is also twice as large as SEMO and SDSU in terms of the undergraduate population. Also I would suggest looking through the list of schools in the Midwest Student Exchange Program if your son is still looking to expand his list of out-of-state colleges. If you have any specific questions about Springfield or MSU, I maybe able to answer. Two of my siblings have attended MSU and I know several who have chosen to go.

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Thks!