<p>Hello everyone. Here's a little background: I live in the Bay Area in California.
I plan on majoring in the field of Hospitality and Hotel Management.</p>
<p>I don't know which school I should go to: SFSU or UNLV.</p>
<p>I like SFSU's social and campus life and the weather is a major plus. I just don't want to stay so close to home :\
Also, my financial aid would be able to help cover the cost.</p>
<p>UNLV is a huge hospitality and hotel industry and I've read how it's in the Top 5 in the nation, but campus life is dead, and desert weather (90+ degrees all the time)
I doubt financial aid will help cover the out of state tuition cost. The Western Undergradute Exchange (WUE), if qualified would allow me to pay the in-state tuition, but I wouldn't be able to find out if I got approved of that until the start of class registrations :(.. It would suck a lot to risk not going to SFSU to find out that I didn't get approved for WUE.</p>
<p>I have to decide ASAP before November 30th. As you can tell, I am in an iffy position.</p>
<p>PLEASE HELP.</p>
<p>Does WUE give you instate …or does it give you 150% of instate tuition?</p>
<p>From the WUE website…</p>
<p>*To calculate the WUE rate, multiply the institution’s resident tuition times 1.5; fees are additional. * </p>
<p>That would be 150% of the instate rate. </p>
<p>In-state tuition is about $6k per year, so 150% would be $9k per year.</p>
<p>If you qualify for Cal Grants, then you wouldn’t get those for an out of state school.</p>
<p>What FA do you qualify for?</p>
<p>If you need FA to pay for SFSU, then going to UNLV doesnt’ sound wise especially if you’re unsure what your tuition rate would be.</p>
<p>I realize it might be OK for hospitality, but I view UNLV as one of the worst public universities in the country. Nevada has a horrible educational system and all those poorly educated kids with terrible writing skills are landing at UNLV and UNR. The bright kids escape to Arizona.</p>
<p>@ mom2collegekids: Thank you so much for your feedback. That actually helped me leaned more towards SFSU. At first, I was leaning towards UNLV even with all the negative reviews it received.</p>
<p>But yes, you’re correct, it gives me 150% of instate tuition.</p>
<p>I’m not too sure which FA I’m going to receive but I’m from a low income family… :</p>
<p>I was thinking of UNLV because of its prestigious hospitality program.</p>
<p>UNLV also requires out of state students to dorm which is about $12000. Omg… Would I be crazy if I still wanted to go there?</p>
<p>@ MomofWildChild: Just curious if you are from Nevada. I’ve read negative reviews on UNLV as well. But I don’t know why, but I still want to go there because of their prestigious Hospitality and Hotel Mgmt. program and how it’s ranked really high in the nation.</p>
<p>I don’t know too much about the program at SFSU but the tuition costs does make more sense to me since I live 40 minutes away and wouldn’t have to pay the crazy out of state costs.</p>
<p>This is tough :…</p>
<p>I’m not from Nevada, but I’ve spent some time there and have a lot of friends who have raised kids there. One kid is currently at UNLV. I’m not impressed.</p>