<p>TieneHopes, don’t count on out of state public colleges. Their first and foremost responsibility is to their state residents, academically, financially and otherwise. That means they are not, and cannot be, generous with you, or their state lawmakers are up in arm against them! Some of them do offer highly competitive scholarships to woo other students – those are the top of their class. You are just not in that stack. Sorry to say it so bluntly. Also, from an immigrant’s experience, I went to a directional school in Oklahoma as an undergrad. The school was doing so poorly that they almost had their accreditation revoked. But I ended up in one of the best graduate programs in the country. So, if you have to go to college in NV, go to college in NV. I am sure NV is whole lot more exciting than southern Oklahoma ;). We used to joke that the biggest benefit of living in OK is you get exciting to travel to any other places on earth, Alabama included LOL (A side note, I just don’t get the GA Tech fad these days. I was in Georgia for a longest time, and it’s just one of the schools, you know).</p>