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<p>uhhhh....what? How can you possibly say that without knowing the grading procedures at the thousands of high schools that are out there? Heck, I doubt it's true about the high school your kid or kids have gone to but ...I'll give you that one. But that's all.</p>
<p>^ Hey, it is worthwhile to try. This strategy does work!! It is magic!</p>
<p>LOL. I'll pass it along.</p>
<p>Fantastic. I wish the OOS school I am currently paying tuition/fees to had the same idea. Go Wyoming!!</p>
<p>Is Wyoming giving similiar merit aid to students from out of state?</p>
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<p>"50% tuition paid for 2.5 GPA and 19 ACT"</p>
<p>"Yikes! In our state [Connecticut] it takes a 32 ACT just to be NMS Commended. And that entitles the student to exactly zip at our state universities!"</p>
<p>That's exactly why my daughter, a high achiever from Connecticut, went to an out of state public university. With her merit scholarship, it actually costs her substantially less to attend an out of state school than it would have cost her to attend UConn. Merit aid offered to resident students at Connecticut's state universities is atrocious -- and being one of the wealthiest states in the country, it's also an embarassment. The Connecticut legislature has invested very heavily in UConn's infrastructure, but not enough in financial aid for the state's resident students. It seems to me that we could learn a thing or two from Wyoming.</p>
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<p>That be just plain, silly. Those costs are indeed born by WYO residents. Looked at another way, if the state did not give all that cash to the Uni, they could give rebate checks to the residents as is done in Alaska. Money is fungible, so if it wasn't spent on higher educ, it could be spent on something else, or just rebated to voters.</p>
<p>Wyoming is trying to do what Texas did thirty years ago, and take a solid public university and turn it into a powerhouse. They're bootstrapping up their student body, which gives them great support from taxpayers all over the state, and using a ton of additional money to fund major improvements to faculty salaries, labs and facilities, and excellent funding for graduate students.</p>
<p>And before folks get too wound up about the apparently low gpa requirements for student funding, you ought to think about the reality that Wyoming is a very, very sparsely populated state. Most of the schools are very small, and it is often hard or impossible for schools to have teachers with degrees in the subjects they're teaching. Many of the high schools don't have either the enrollment or faculty to support AP courses, and I'd guess that the majority of kids who do manage to take AP courses in the state do so through an online program, which is quite likely not as helpful as having a trained and experienced teacher locally. A huge number of high school students in Wyoming work, many on family ranches or farms, and school may easily be an hour to an hour and a half away. This is quite a bit different than the resources available to many of the CC posters.</p>
<p>I'm impressed that Wyoming is taking such a long range view to improving education. With global warming, the winter temperature in Laramie may actually get up to comfortable levels by the time this program reaches fruition.</p>
<p>gbesq, Yikes! In our state [Connecticut] it takes a 32 ACT just to be NMS Commended. And that entitles the student to exactly zip at our state universities!"</p>
<p>gbesq, I feel the same way...my son had friends that received better packages from out of state private and public schools. My doctor (who was sending his kid off to college) was saying to me yesterday that it's a shame our state can't be like the southern states where a student can get a good education for a reasonable price, what state colleges are supposed to be for.
Also the money going to UConn is great but leaves the other state schools lacking...we have 5 but you wouldn't know it!</p>
<p>What Wyoming is doing for its students is great but I have to bring this up. It's significantly easier to afford such a program for 6K students per year than it would be for a state such as Texas or California which see from 250K-500K.</p>
<p>I wonder how taxpayers feel about footing the bill for ANYONE who does not go to college. In most states high school grads cost the taxpayers money, AAs and tech degress are a breakeven and BA/BS and above pay the way for everyone.</p>
<p>Come on people - this isn't that hard. WE WANT EVERYONE TO GO TO COLLEGE.</p>