<p>MomofaPrincess, </p>
<p>Well, after reading your post, I feel like a real "whiner". If you can put two children through top-flight schools, then I should be able to do the same for one. </p>
<p>I hope your daughter enjoys Bloomington starting this August--and hopefully, we'll be reading many of your posts on her adventure.</p>
<p>I went to Bloomington this weekend, the Fin Aid officer said the tuition went up from 29K to 36K (without all those plane tickets, etc)
When asked the reason it when up, he said: "it is what it is" really nice huh?
I've decided not to attend, the cost is too high for an OOS
good luck to all of you</p>
<p>calcuzer...next year the meal plans are 2800 for plan C, 3200 for plan B, 3600 for Plan A. Do you think I should get the lowest meal plan? I heard you can always add points later if you need them right? Also, where does your son live again? Im thinking of living at Teters next yr or Briscoe.</p>
<p>bthomp
I'm a Bloomington kid and it really varies from person to person on how we see IU. For some people, it's a definite, yes, I'm going to IU, Hoosiers for life kind of thing. Especially since if your parents work for IU you get 1/2 off tuition, plus in-state tuition already, so it's a pretty good deal. For most people (me included) who were born in Bloomington Hospital and lived in Bloomington for their entire lives, IU is not very appealing and it's a definite, ew, no, there is no way I'm going to IU I'm not even applying kind of thing. My application to IU was for ultimate safety reasons, I honestly had no intentions of attending. My application to Huttons was submitted a month late and only that because my dad annoyed the crap out of me to do it, and he is not one of those overbearing parents at all, never asked me if I had done my homework once throughout all of high school because he trusted me enough to do it even though I didn't. Anyway, I'm glad he was annoying because with the 8K automatic scholarship and 2K from Huttons, I'm actually probably going to be going to IU and very happy about it. I don't know how the conversion happened, but I imagine it is a similar experience to what an atheist would feel after converting to Christianity or something equally soul changing. IU was the only instate school I applied to (I applied to three schools in Cali) and my philosophy on that was, if I stay instate at all, IU is the best one, at least for me. But the "heck no I'm not going to IU" mentality that most people have stems from just wanting to get out of Bloomington, and isn't an aversion to IU because we all know it's a great school and that Bloomington is a great college town. But I think when it comes down to it, money is the biggest factor, and if it wasn't an issue, most people would be happy to experience a new life at a good out of state school. But money is obviously a huge factor, so might as well have your cake and eat it too at IU. It will be interesting to see how Bloomington changes to me as a student, I'm sure I'll love it more but still hate it at the same time!</p>
<p>zouman
definitely get the lowest meal plan possible. you will get sick of the food and want to have that extra cash to eat out or get your own groceries. all of my friends at IU complain about meal points or have their younger siblings come eat with them in the dorms to use them up because they have way too many.</p>
<p>bthomp, I would echo revolcgirl's comments, based on graduating from high school in Bloomington some 30 years ago. There was much the same attitude then that people like IU, but wanted to get out of town to experience something new. What I found interesting was that it was hard to get the high school counselors to engage in any conversation about any school other than IU, unless you were a Harvard candidate. They just assumed IU was the default setting, and of course everyone should go there.</p>
<p>Count my son among those who won't be able to attend with the high OOS costs. Since I work and pay income taxes in Indiana, I thought he might be eligible for IS tuition, but no such luck.</p>
<p>I agree that my experience with the lady in FA wasn't all that great. She was blunt and cold to my questioning if they had made a mistake in their FA offer. When she pointed out they were a public not private school I did get it though. That has been my experience - you can negotiate with private but not public. And I am sure about this time of year she must have a horrid job answering call after call from people upset about their FA package. </p>
<p>So....my D has decided to retake the ACT and see if she can get a higher score and more $$$ along with writing essays all summer. I guess every $500 scholarship can help.</p>
<p>When did you all receive your financial aid packages? I wonder why I haven't gotten mine</p>
<p>revolcgirl - I called FA yesterday because I wanted to compare to other offers my daughter had. I think she said ours was mailed the 28th. She gave me what they offered over the phone.</p>
<p>High tuition and no basketball team--what a mess.</p>
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<p>Get ready for the Crean and Crimson. How goofy is that?</p>
<p>Oh great! Hazmat, I'll always blame you once that gets started! Maybe a midwesterner can bring IU bball back to it's roots. Crean is who a few people in my house hoped IU would have hired when Sampson came.</p>
<p>i thought tuition/room and board was between $28,454$30,176
40k is way too expensive for oos even with scholarship
IU is great but def not worth 40k</p>
<p>Pretty good hire considering. Guess he figured it was now or never to get out of MU while people still remembered Wade.</p>
<p>Tuition, Room and board, fees comes to $36,000</p>
<p>"40k is way too expensive for oos even with scholarship
IU is great but def not worth 40k"
could not agree more, blahhh</p>