<p>How much opportunity is there to get an OOS tuition waiver or a good scholarship for someone with these stats who won't quailify for need based aid:</p>
<p>ACT 34
top 5%
3.98/uw 4.12/wt
athletics
leadership
good EC's and volunteer work</p>
<p>If I can't get a scholarship, how hard is it to establish residency after freshman year?</p>
<p>I think you need to find a specific honors program or other program or specific department that will give you an out of state tuition waiver. </p>
<p>It is hard to establish residency. The admissions web page says
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To qualify as a Texas resident, an individual must reside in Texas for one year and establish a domicile in Texas prior to enrollment. An applicant or student who is claimed as a dependent on a parent's most recent federal tax return will be classified based on the parent's qualifications for residency.
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<p>I want to major in economics or political science and haven't seen anything on the website to indicate specific scholarships, just that you apply through the general application.
Are you saying you have to contact the department specifically? Are there waiver scholarships for only certain departments? I haven't been able to find out much information about this, but see occassional posts on here about waivers.</p>
<p>Does this help at all? Lots of legalistic phrases but there might be something helpful in here.</p>
<p>THank you so much!!</p>
<p>I read on the somewhere on the site that they waive OOS fees for national merit finalists</p>
<p>I think that they do not have a written policy that they will waive oos tuition for nmfs but I think that in practice, this is something that they have always done.</p>
<p>i'm an international student currently at community college in texas. Is there anyway I can get instate tuition? </p>
<p>If i get instate I 'm sure I'll go to UT. Otherwise, I don't have any option to pay such a huge OOS tuition... 30K+ per annum.</p>
<p>Not unless you have maintained a domicile in Texas for 12 months and have claimed that as your sole residence.</p>
<p>The rule on tuition waivers is that they are only granted to students who earn a merit scholarship of at least $1000. This is a state law.</p>
<p>Wait, so if UT gives me a scholly for 1.5k, then my OOS tuition changes to in-states and they minus that 1.5k from whatever in-state costs are? Or am I reading that wrong? But it's probably hard to get a scholarship OOS.</p>
<p>bumpers..
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<p>It isn't any harder to get a scholarship OOS than in-state with the same stats. However, a lot of scholarships are for graduates of a specific high school or for students from a particular county, so you probably won't be able to get a lot of those.</p>
<p>A lot of kids go through UT with similar stats to yours and don't get any merit-based aid. Some kids do get merit-based aid.</p>
<p>But if you get a scholarship, they lower your tuition to in-state level and then deduct $1000. This is the same that an in-state student with the same scholarship would pay (except for national merit). National merit OOS has to pay about 2x as much tuition as in state.</p>