<p>does that significantly hurt chances?</p>
<p>I think only about 7% of students are OOS but don't be discouraged. One, OOS pay about 5 times the tuition of Florida students, so in this time of budget cuts they would be greatly appreciated, and two, I think that if they always accept about that % of OOS (sort of like a quota), you'd be competing against a much lower number of students (this years' total # of applications was around 28k). It'll be interesting to know what % of applications are from OOS.</p>
<p>I'm out of state, and they offered me an academic achievement award, so that I pay higher for tuition than in state, but only by about 100/credit. I'm not entirely sure on percentages and all that, but since it was mentioned that oos tuition would be an incentive for more oos to be accepted, I don't think that they really want to gouge the student's pockets.</p>
<p>^ All evidence to the contrary. In-state is disgustingly too cheap, and Out-of-state is still pretty inexpensive in comparison to the other top Research Universities.</p>
<p>..more interested in chances than costs.</p>
<p>(completely agreed, by the way... florida colleges are incrediblyyy cheap, who knows why. i mean, a couple thousand dollars a year in state? i mean, i'm not interested in my own state, but if i were, it still would be more than out of state in florida, for most..)</p>