What are the chances off getting enough scholarship to end up paying an instate price for an out of state student? My daughter has an unweighted GPA 3.8 and ACT 31.
About zero, I think. The old scholarship that did that no longer covers the full difference. The state legislature has raised the out of state tuition price and the grant (alas) is only $10k.
As for the question “are my daughter’s stats good enough for merit aid”, I have no knowledge.
I hate to say it, but my daughter had higher stats than that, was OOS and received only a $1500 scholarship, for one year. They have really changed their numbers formula for the OOS students. My DD was top 5%, 32, 3.94 uw/5.06w.
The difference will probably be about $15K for this fall, closer to $19K for incoming freshman the following year. Unless they increase the value of the largest typical OOS National award from $10K per year to a higher amount, you’d need another stacking award or two (like NMF) to make up that difference.
My daughter had similar stats (3.9 and 32) and earned the $5K national award and a stacking $6K scholarship. Still not enough to cover the difference, but barely enough to make it work for us. UMN-TC just isn’t the value it was a couple years ago:-(
Where did your daughter end up going if you don’t mind sharing? We are at a loss of where to apply other than in our own state.
@engineering123 - If you mean my daughter, she is attending Minnesota in the college of Biological Sciences. In-state UIUC would have been much less expensive, but it was basically her safety. She earned some nice merit scholarships at other public and private schools, but Minnesota was less expensive than her other choices. It was definitely a great fit for her overall, in my opinion anyway.
A year earlier, my son received the National scholarship for $10K/year (4.0, 36 ACT). He ended up at UIUC which turned out to be a great choice for him.
Assuming you are looking at an engineering program, it depends on the state where you live and what major of course. Iowa State has a solid engineering program with more reasonable OOS costs and possibly more merit too. Purdue is an excellent engineering school and may be a little cheaper for OOS than Minnesota with the recent tuition increases. After that, Ohio State, Arizona State, Stony Brook and UIC could be more reasonably priced than Minnesota, especially if you do get more merit aid. Also, Kansas and Nebraska offer great incentives for OOS students from the midwest and should be much less expensive.
@engineering123 what state are you in?