<p>I am a NC resident and interested in some OOS publics if i dont get into UNC. I have a 3.4 and a 28 ACT and can list extracurricular and other info if it matters but i dont think it does for aid purposes. I am also applying to some private schools(wake, villanova, boston college, and maybe others) but i know state residency doesnt have anything to do with that and if you are if you get in you will get some aid. But I am more concerned with OOS public schools. I know you need to be near the top percentile of applicants to get aid, is this ture? This is how i feel about the schools I am interested in and I would appreciate it if you could give me your opinion on each.</p>
<p>-clemson( i am on the upper part of the ACT but lower part GPA i feel like i would get accpeted but how do you feel about aid?)
-Georgia Tech (one of the schools I am most interested in, but I am at best 50 percentile and am not sure if i owuld get any decent aid)
-University of florida ( same as georgia tech)
-University of maryland CP (same as FLorida)
-University of Georiga (I feel like this is the same as clemson)
-Florida State ( probably my best chance of getting aid considering i am near the top for ACT)</p>
<p>Please let me know if you think I could get aid to these schools or if you have any other suggestions for schools that are in the South Eastern region of the United States. Thanks for your time!</p>
<p>If you go to the Collegeboard website and look up each college, you can see the percentage of need that each college typically meets. For public colleges, that may not tell an accurate picture, because many give little need-based aid to out of state. It will tell you that a college like Villanova is far from meeting 100% of need.</p>
<p>If you google “common data set” for each college, it will provide detailed data on need and merit aid that was offered in a recent year.</p>
<p>There are a number of public out of states that give merit aid to their top out of state applicants. Their goal is to bring their out of state tuition rates down closer to in-state rates for the applicants who are most in demand. One example is the University of Pittsburgh.</p>
<p>The stats this OP posted would not put him in contention for the very generous merit aid U of Pittsburgh offers.</p>
<p>I’ll be more bold, and please don’t think I’m being snarky…if this student doesn’t get accepted to UNC as an INSTATE applicant, I think acceptance to the other schools he is applying to is iffy…never mind merit aid.</p>
<p>Also FYI…Boston College does not give merit aid…only need based aid…but my opinion is this is a reach school for this student.</p>
<p>UF and FSU offer VERY limited scholarships to OOS students (and the few who get aid are nearly always National Merit scholars). They’ve also become very expensive for OOS students.</p>
<p>yah this is what I figured especially for florida. If it makes a difference I am legacy at the U of Florida though. yes Boston College is my reach school. But what about Clemson, Georgia Tech and U of Georgia? Do public colleges not give need based aid? I thought clemson would be good about this because they have a 35% OOS population. Please more info would be appreciated. Thumper I was pretty sure that was the case anyway so you were not being offensive in the slightest bit. Thanks for all the help!</p>
<p>In my experience, OOS public need-based aid sucks as a general rule. Some have programs for very low income students (UW-Madison), and some have great merit aid (too many to list), but for the average student, an OOS public is going to be an expensive choice.</p>
<p>There are only TWO public universities that guarantee to meet full need for all accepted students…UNC Chapel Hill, and University of Virginia.</p>
<p>The remaining public universities do NOT guarantee to meet full need for all accepted students…and they don’t. Most award federally funded aid to those who quailfy for it. Most of these schools do not have the endowments to provide significant scholarship aid…and if they do it is for VERY high achieving students (like those who get the McNair at U of South Carolina)…or for their own instate students.</p>
<p>Adding to what Thumper1 said, these days many publics are counting on the higher tuition paid by out of state students. It would be self-defeating for them to offer their own money to any out-of-stater who isn’t highly desirable.</p>
<p>But what about Clemson, Georgia Tech and U of Georgia? Do public colleges not give need based aid? I thought clemson would be good about this because they have a 35% OOS population.</p>
<p>None of those schools are going to give you need based aid to make them affordable.</p>
<p>The OOS population at Clemson isn’t because of need-based aid. It’s probably largely due to athletic scholarships and merit scholarships to high stats students.</p>
<p>Your stats are in that gray area…they are good stats, but not the type to get big merit or great FA packages from the schools that give them. </p>
<p>OOS publics charge high OOS rates for a reason. It wouldn’t make much sense to then just cover it with need-based aid. UVA and UNC do it, but you have to have high stats to get in from OOS, so one could argue that their need-based aid has an indirect merit component.</p>