@Grainraiser no he/she didn’t -that was someone else
I think you should apply to IU as well as instate schools. Some people just want to try another area for college - no harm in that if you can make it work financially.
We live in VA and told our daughter that we could pay for instate tuition + room and board, but if she wanted to go out of state, she would need to find a way to pay for it with merit scholarships and/or loans. She got into some great schools, but the money was not there, so she went to William and Mary and is quite happy to be attending debt free.
Just so you know, W&M instate tuition plus room and board is over $30,000 this year (the most expensive instate VA school). By comparison, Florida State and University of North Carolina-Wilmington are $33,000 for out of state; NC State is $37,000, Indiana University is about $45,000 for out of state - but they do give out merit aid for students that they like. University of Pittsburgh is another public college where VA residents have gotten good merit packages. As other posters have said, we have no idea if you have the stats for those awards - you have to be at the top of their applicant pool. Add a $1000 for the travel budget.
Please note that your parents will have to cooperate if you want to take out loans above $5500 per year. And you will need to include their financial information to apply for financial aid (although maybe not for the merit awards). So do try to stay cordial with them 
I think you should apply to a mix of instate and affordable for your family out of state schools and wait for the results. Your mom may change her mind when she sees those college admissions. Good luck!
Either Indiana will be affordable or it will but, but personally I wouldn’t choose it over the VA state schools. I am more concerned about your plan to apply to Liberty. That school is not universally respected and I wouldn’t want to invest in a diploma from it.
There are enough well regarded state schools in VA that you should be able to find one that gets you far enough from your family that you won’t be bumping in to them, yet you still get the in state tuition at a respected program.
UVA’s business school is one of the best among all state universities.
@Jrgib98 I would love nothing more than for my son to be able to go to UVA, which I consider to be one of the very best universities in the United States, certainly far better than many of those places in the Northeast. Why would you not choose a really great school at a reasonable cost and instead pick a not-as-good school at triple the price? I don’t understand.
@Erin’s Dad :
Just what I was wondering. Which of the VA state schools would you be accepted to, do you think?
Let me just say that while you do have great in-state options in VA, you shouldn’t be deterred from going OOS if you want to. If you’re tired of your hometown, getting OOS is the perfect way to free yourself of hometown shackles and burdens.
But, before I recommend any schools to you, what are your stats?
OP I understand wanting to go OOS, but the money is real. You think your mom just does not want you to be far away, but money may well be playing a role here. Also some of theose VA (like UVA) schools are very hard to get into.GL
I’m in VA and my daughter didn’t apply to any in-state schools. We gave her a dollar amount, basically told her to stick to that dollar amount and not take any loans, and it worked out. (She was accepted to Indiana but didn’t get merit aid so it turned out to be unaffordable). UVA, W&M and VT were out of reach based on her stats (i.e., she didn’t have a 4.0 GPA), and she really wanted a change and a different part of the country.
Hopefully your parents will come around to letting you go out of state AND help you pay for it. As several posters have stated, there are out of state options that aren’t that much more expensive than the VA schools.
IU business school is great but you have other good options. IU out of state fees are sky high. They get little money from the state for education and charge the out of staters. They have no choice. The state does not find education-- but they are not as bad off as Illinois. As for jobs to pay your way through, it’s very hard. The town is filled with graduates who cannot find a well paying job to support themselves. Stay in VA, it’s a nice place and you will have better opportunities.
If I recall correctly IU business school is direct admit, whereas UVA’s is not. The uncertainty of admission to the business school, even if you are accepted to UVA, could be a big factor weighing on OP. I think this is a valid concern (although of course that doesn’t mean that IU is the only alternative). And it’s not as if UVA is a guaranteed admission. I live in Northern Virginia and UVA is a reach for anybody!
I understand wanting to explore new areas and think college is a great time for that. I grew up in California but went to school in Chicago. My oldest is in school in Ohio and didn’t even apply to any Virginia schools and luckily finances were not a factor. My DD18 is probably going to apply only to VA Tech and the remainder of her schools will be out of state. I get it.
If you can get full ride at IU then sure, go ahead.
If not then stay in state but live on campus.
Believe me in state sound like you are still within reach of your parent’s claws on daily basis but it’s not like that. You can visit home home all the time if you like it or as little if you don’t. Once parents get used to you safely living your own, they relax and stop intervening. For exploring unknown, spend a semester or a year or just summers in programs abroad. Usually people put too much emphasis on abroad, unique experiences can be experienced doing new things on campus or off campus in your own city and state. It may seem that everyone from your school is going to be there in state schools but those are huge campuses and big classes, you would have plenty of new people from all over the state and other states plus international students, reach out to diffrent people and make a whole new set of friends.
Look into the Fry scholarships at IU kelly. They go to in and out of state and cover everything, I think.
Oh please. No one is suggesting the kid go to college in his hometown. There are many really fine instate public options in VA. Oh…and there are also many kids who are not from THIS kid’s hometown or even state…attending these schools.
Out of state students at IU can get up to $11k per year in merit, but tuition for out of state students is $35k a year (plus another $12k or so for room and board). That leaves a $35,000 gap every year.
Kelley School does have the very competitive Fry Scholarship which covers tuition and room and board at the B school. It is not limited to instate applicants, though it does say preference is given to underrepresented groups at the business school.
Given all the good in-state options for a VA resident, unless a family had $250,000 sitting in the bank ready for full pay, it would be hard to justify paying out of state costs at Indiana.
@thumper1 well, maybe he wants to explore another state? There are Virginians who go OOS each year, as well as North Carolinians and Californians, despite the presence of excellent in-state public options. If it were that simple, students in all those states would stay in-state. But they don’t.
@LBad96 sure…kids go out of state. Mine did. But, as a parent, I supported this. This family does not.
We were able to support it financially, and we also had kids who had been away from home extensively starting in MS…without us.
Your parents allowed you to go from NJ to NC for college where you are currently a student.That doesn’t mean every family can or should support this decision.
This OP needs to find out WHY the parents want him or her to stay instate. There could be a very good reason.
And sure…many VA and NC and CA kids go OOS…but the vast majority stay instate…which is the case for the vast majority of college students…who attend college closer to home.
@thumper1 they don’t have to if they can’t financially support it, but why shouldn’t they if they are financially able to do so?
@LBad96 there can be a multitude of reasons, starting with finances (nice of you to say “they don’t have to if they can’t financially support it”) and continuing for all sorts of family issues that are frankly none of our business. I realize you are very young and don’t have a clue as to why parents sometimes don’t support everything their high school student thinks is a good idea so you will just have to trust that they usually have very good reasons for their requirements.
Even if they don’t have what you or I would consider very good reasons, so what? They are within their rights to set parameters for their own kids education. Most families would consider themselves to be very lucky to have the in-state options they have in Virginia. Even if I were very wealthy, my kids would have to have had very solid reasons for me to pay for out if state schools if I were a VA resident.
Well, same with me as someone who plans to settle down and eventually raise kids in NC. You have great points. My perspective is probably perhaps different because I’m from a smaller state that really sorely lacks quality in-state options, hence why 55% of students leave the state for college.