Public universities that tend to give good aid to out of state students?

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You may want to look at U of South Carolina. If you are NMF your cost (based on this year’s tuition costs) would be less than $12,000 all in after likely merit. They also have some very competitive scholarships that you would have a shot at that would bring your costs lower, and your geographic diversity might help with that. SC has one of the top Public Honors colleges in the country (separate app required as admittance is not automatic based on stats as it is at some other schools).

Good for you for doing some research now.

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UMass Lowell is okay, UMass Dartmouth isn’t at all good, and UMass Boston is an unheralded commuter school.

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Georgia tech => app must be sent before Oct 15 for merit aid

Northeastern => yes

Penn state => unlikely, but they do have some random scholarships for women in stem (especially minority, not sure if that applies to you).

University of Oregon =>? not at the level of the others. You’d be better off with the NMF schools +WUE

Boston University=> unlikely and SUPER expensive

UMass = as a freshman you’d have to live on-campus. You can try with UMass Amherst and UMass Lowell for merit.

Colorado, UCs= no

I second/third WPI, Case Western, Temple.

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Northeastern has a guaranteed merit scholarship of $30,000/year for NMF’s. It has no specific award for NMSF’s. Students must live on campus freshman and sophomore years.

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@MYOS1634 yeah, I’m not a minority. I suppose I could apply just in case.
@LuckyCharms913 I’m a little bit hesitant about the south because I am LGBT. I knew Georgia tech is pretty accepting so I wasn’t worried about it. I’ll have to do some more research, but thanks for mentioning it.

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Great schools for LGBT in the South: Eckerd, New College of Florida, Agnes Scott, Emory, Guilford ( non exhaustive)
Run the NPC on Vassar.
A good way to sift through all possibilities is to look for “gender-neutral housing” colleges - not the same as LGBTQ friendly but still a clear sign the college is trying to make life easier for the LGBTQ community on campus. Some colleges also have LGBTQ living learning communities to help freshmen who are out but need a community of peers to feel stronger in their identity.

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Boston University is private and isn’t known for good FA. You may want to take it off your list.

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My son looked at New College. They give automatic $10K scholarships to admitted OOS students, but I don’t know about financial aid.

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Why do you need to go to a four year school? Start off at a good two year school, and work your way up. Snow College in Ephraim Utah is a really good school. LBGTQ isn’t an issue as there is a lot of support for it (really, no one there cares about your gender choice). Economically, $10k should cover it, if not there are scholarships and grants.

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  1. how does your family in MA feel about you crashing in their home for 4 years?

  2. why bother going OOS if you’re just going to end up “living at home”?

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Utah is definitely not a state I’d go to if LGBTQ; starting at a community college means forsaking thousands of dollars in scholarships and should be a solution only if your stats don’t qualify you for merit money or you live near a good one for transfers.

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Colo State participates in WUE, but the U of Colo schools do not. Utah and Montana are good choices for some types of engineering.

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The other 3(Dartmouth,Lowell,Boston) all have 6 year graduation rates under 60%. Lowell has good retention rates so it is decent-okay though. But Amherst is definitely the one to choose.