<p>My daughter is OOS at Indiana, chosen for its business program and the big unknown/adventure of a place not at all like home.</p>
<p>If you’re thinking business, University of Oregon is that state’s strongest business program (by far) over Oregon State.</p>
<p>missypie if you D is interested in Private Schools in the North West send me a PM. We are NOT paying 50K for either of our kids.</p>
<p>Oklahoma University? William and Mary (would fit the 5000-10000 range)?</p>
<p>If Oregon State is on the list, is Univ. of Oregon not on it for some reason? UO has a very strong business program, as well as many, many other academic options should the student change their mind. Your student would get the benefit of the Pacific NW climate (I understand the aversion to heat. I grew up in a hot part of the country and have a great dislike of it myself.)</p>
<p>Also, someone may have mentioned this already, but some schools have a reduced out-of-state tuition exchange with other states. That can save quite a bit with OOS costs.</p>
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<p>@missypie It’s nice to hear my D is not the only one who wants to go oos just for the sake of it. My h and i are very nice people, but she can’t seem to get far enough away from us–ha ha! The only one we’ve seen from your list is va tech, which she loved. Very pretty campus. We’re working on the assumption there’ll be no aid. Transportation is an issue, too. D says she wants to take another look at Penn St. next fall ( in state for us ) when school is in session. It’s not exactly a bargain for us, and I can’t imagine paying oos. Good luck!</p>
<p>I’m somewhat familiar with Oregon State. It’s fairly reputable in the Northwest, especially for engineering and science. Corvallis is a small but somewhat quaint town. School spirit is huge, especially for the sports teams. The budget has been cut pretty brutally in recent years, which has led to some changes. While Oregon is often associated with far-left liberal politics, that is more frequent at UO than at “Oregon Straight” which tends to be more conservative.</p>
<p>The SUNY schools have relatively low OOS tuition rates.</p>
<p>The original list:
Kansas State
University of Kentucky
University of Nebraska
Oklahoma State
Oregon State
Texas Tech
Virginia Tech
West Virginia
UK is Kentucky, KU is the University of Kansas (not on the list).</p>
<p>“Oregon Straight” -ha, I never heard that before. I deal with a lot of students who deliberate between UO and OSU. I haven’t seen the choices break down too uniformly along liberal/conservative lines. Both Eugene and Corvallis have a hip factor, although Corvallis balances that with a tinge of cow-town, too.</p>
<p>Mostly I see it work out along different areas of interest – the humanities, business, arts, pre-med and academic math and sciences tend to go to UO. The OSU kids are usually more applied sciences, pre-professional programs, and quite a few education majors, in my experience.</p>
<p>The Duck/Beaver divide. ;)</p>
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<p>Michigan State and Pitt are both, I think, closer to our house that Ohio University and Miami University of Ohio. But MSU and Pitt are considered “ok” in DS’s book because they are out of state - OU and Miami don’t make the cut because they are in state. Augh! What is it with kids and the blanket “I want to go out of state”? Sigh. Luckily he has no objection to Ohio State as an in-state safety, and we’ve got another year+ to be thinking about this…</p>
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<p>Augh! This sounds too familiar, although so far the only school on both kids’ list is WVU, which DS likes because my husband’s cousin’s son graduated from there and he is cool. </p>
<p>missypie, your D is a junior, right? My son is a sophomore. Could you just weigh all of the options and let me know which one your D picks? As long as it’s not in Ohio, anywhere is fine. Save us some time… :D</p>
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<p>My daughter is a senior at Kansas State majoring in animal science and will be continuing on at K-State for vet school. She absolutely loves it there. If you have specific questions, feel free to pm me and I’ll try to answer them for you. I’m sure that my daughter would also be happy to exchange email and/or have a telephone conversation with you if you would like to hear about K-State from a student’s point of view.</p>
<p>Well, I wanted to go out of state to “get away” (partially) and my parents told me I could go jump in a lake. </p>
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<p>It’s nice that you are doing research for your D here :).</p>
<p>My in-laws moved to Madison back in the early 50s because of UW, and told all five kids they would be attending that school! And they did.</p>
<p>I had to go back and figure out why Oregon State is on the “pre-list” but University of Oregon is not. With higher OOS tuition and less probable merit aid, my computations left U of Oregon costing about $10,000 more a year than Oregon State. I could have gotten the numbers wrong, but that was the rationale.</p>
<p>I hadn’t realized there was such a difference in out-of-state cost. Interesting to know that.</p>
<p>Most states add about $10K, but UVA and Michigan tack on about $20K for OOS.</p>
<p>My daughter also wanted to go out of state, but she was a good enough student that other states wanted her. She is at Pitt and loves it. Pitt’s great endowment provides lots of $$$ for top students.</p>
<p>The difference for UT next year between in-state and out-of-state is over $22k! They seem to be bumping it up a lot. The legislature wouldn’t let them raise in-state tuition as much as they wanted, so this is probably their way of raising more revenue.</p>