<p>Some schools won’t let you stay in the dorms during winter break either, without paying. So add that to your costs :(</p>
<p>Some won’t let you stay in AT ALL…because they don’t have RA’s over the breaks. However, some have a designated dorm that is just for int’ls who can’t go home, but you have to be in THAT dorm to stay over holidays.</p>
<p>don’t know how financial aid works for internationals but if its based on FAFSA then you’d get very generous need-based aid too.</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Why do you think this OOS student (citizen) would get generous need based aid???</p>
<p>Even the NPC (which suggests “merit scholarships” w/o asking for stats (???) says that he’d have to pay $23k after aid/merit.</p>
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<p>Do you have a house in Maryland ? You could use that address when applying and show the documents if needed.</p>
<p>Awww crap. Thanks for the reply guys. Im going to look deeper into some schools.</p>
<p>Am i better of applying to some cheaper private school? And im still a domestic applicant, that much ive checked on every colleges website. Some might evaluate me as compared with other internationals but i dont apply as an int’l</p>
<p>???</p>
<p>Why do you think this OOS student (citizen) would get generous need based aid???</p>
<p>Because his parents make 15k per year so the FAFSA number would be VERY low. I did not use a calculator but that’s poverty level by our standards. But again, internationals are probably not measured the same way.</p>
<p>He’s not an int’l, he’s a US citizen.</p>
<p>UMass is an OOS public for this student. UMass, like most schools, doesn’t have the need-based funds to give away…especially to an OOS student </p>
<p>OOS publics charge high OOS rates for a reason. It wouldn’t make much sense to then cover those high rates by giving need-based aid…it would just drain their FA budget…which they need to help instate students whose costs are much lower.</p>
<p>Anyway…it doesn’t matter what his EFC is, very, very few OOS publics are going to care except to see whether he qualifies for fed aid, which isn’t much.</p>
<p>think about it…the residents of Mass would be livid if their tax dollars were being used to cover the high OOS rates charged. That’s the point of charging those rates…the OOS student’s parents aren’t paying taxes, so they’re supposed to pay the higher rate.</p>
<p>FAFSA is a federal aid form. The feds have no authority to make schools give more aid because of the fed’s concept of EFC.</p>
<p>Schools don’t have to do ANYTHING with EFC except to check for fed aid qualifications. A person could have 0 income and a 0 EFC, and a school can still expect that student’s family to pay $50k per year after awarding a 5500 fed Pell Grant and a 5500 fed student loan.</p>