<p>For what it’s worth, we visited the Mizzou last spring after my daughter was admitted and at the Admission office info session (your standard college visit type session) they passed around a flyer with a step-by-step guide to obtaining Missouri residency for tuition purposes after your first year. My daughter decided on another school, so I didn’t pay too much attention, but I don’t remember the process being particularly onerous. The admissions office my be willing to e-mail you the information so that your D can decide if she would be interested in pursuing it.</p>
<p>Also, depending on your D’s class rank, she may qualify for the Mark Twain Scholarship which will discount tuition further.</p>
<p>The J-School visit was well worth doing and Mizzou jumped several notches on my D’s list, and landed right at the top of my husband’s (we’re in NJ and the full OOS tuition was comparable to Rutgers (not even on D’s radar) and well less than the private schools D applied to). Ultimately she ended up somewhere else, but I wouldn’t necessarily write the school off as too expensive without further research.</p>