<p>Is UMASS worth the out of state tuition? Are there opportunities to get out of state waivers? What is just the general feel at UMASS for someone who isn't a Mass. native?</p>
<p>(I'm from Texas and currently living abroad if that matters.)</p>
<p>Are you asking about UMASS Amherst or UMASS Boston. The Amherst campus is in the western part of the state – no where near Boston (just going by your user name:)). UMASS Amherst is the state flagship. Hard to say if it’s worth out of state tuition, that would be individual to you, your interests, and other options on the table.</p>
<p>UMass-Lowell and UMass-Dartmouth, for that matter, are closer to Boston than Amherst!!</p>
<p>Frankly, I don’t understand why someone would want to pay higher OOS costs to attend another state’s flagship, when their own flagship (U. of Texas in Austin, for example) are good schools.</p>