<p>Is it true that public schools don't give great aid packages to OOS students?</p>
<p>Generally, yes. Do you have a particular one in mind?</p>
<p>It is true that most do not. Why would they bother to charge high OOS tuition if they were just going to have to dig into their limited funds and hand out need based aid to cover those high costs. If they were to do that, they might as well not charge OOS rates, right?</p>
<p>However, some do offer merit scholarships. Purdue has some for high stats students. I think that if you have about an ACT 33 or higher, you can get a $9,000 per year award…so the remaining costs would be about 30k. </p>
<p>There are some schools that give larger awards for stats. </p>
<p>how much will your family pay? </p>
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<p>Merit awards are usually based on single sittings. There are schools that will give you large merit for your stats.</p>
<p>For need based aids, most publics do not offer much to oos. For merit aids, you should still be eligible if you have the stat except for those restricted for in state students.</p>
<p>State schools were built to serve state residents.</p>
<p>Two public universities meet 100% of the need of out of state US students- UVa and UNC Chapel Hill. William and Mary often offers substantial out of state aid, but not 100%. Most mainly offer merit aid to top out of state applicants. A few publics may offer aid to under-represented minority out of state students. </p>
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<p>Yes, those schools do (altho I think UNC had a problem this last year and couldn’t fully fund OOS students.)</p>
<p>However, both schools are very hard to get into from OOS, so it could be argued that any such aid has a merit component. </p>
<p>As an OOS student, ask yourself why another state where your parents neither pay taxes nor vote would want to spend its taxdollars on u.</p>
<p>In general this is true, but not for everyone everywhere so you have to look into it college by college. What are you thinking?</p>
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<p>A generation or few ago, some states wanted to attract college educated people to move to the state and contribute to the state economy. With plenty of space in the state universities at the time, one way they did this was by making out-of-state tuition a bargain compared to private university tuition, so that students would come to study, like it in the state, and take jobs in the state after graduation (local or regional employers tend to show up more at the career center).</p>
<p>Of course, the conditions that existed back then (plenty of state university capacity, shortage of college educated people in the state, generous state funding of state universities) no longer exist today in many of the states.</p>
<p>@mom2collegekids The CDS for UNC still shows 100% need met for last year.</p>
<p>Yes, historically UNC-CH received some of the highest subsidies per student from their state of any state university. Recently, a slash and burn group took control of the Legislature and have been making cuts. If they stay in power, I’d assume that UNC may not stay affordable.</p>
<p>Also, UVa’s meeting full need for oos students typically involves an offer of $4k a year of work study and $7K a year of federal loans (including Perkins). If you have a good full time summer job, you may be able to afford to avoid the work study. Also, there is almost no UVa aid for international students.</p>
<p>Yes, when a highly selective university gives need-based aid, it is almost like merit aid because it is a high threshold to get in. </p>
<p>Yes, there are often merit aid with a need component. My D got one like that from an oos school too.</p>
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@mom2collegekids The CDS for UNC still shows 100% need met for last year.</p>
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<p>I know it does. I will look for the post that challenges that. Or maybe UNC considered the Plus loans included as being “meeting need”?</p>
<p>Net price (list price minus grants only) for UNC-CH for an Alabama resident at the following income/asset levels:</p>
<p>$20,000 income / $2,000 assets: $2,700
$60,000 income / $20,000 assets: $17,422
$100,000 income / $400,000 assets: $40,143 (assets include $200,000 in home equity and $180,000 in non-cash investments)</p>
<p>See <a href=“Net Price Calculator”>Net Price Calculator;
<p>I.e. don’t try to guess what “meet need” claims mean. Use the net price calculator.</p>
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<p>Agreed. That’s why I deliberately did NOT state that that publics don’t give aid to OOS. You have to examine which states have incentive to attract OOS students</p>