<p>Oregon is part of the WUE/WICHE, so see if there are any schools there that you would like. It is usually 150% of the instate tuition rates, but at some schools those are much cheaper than the instate rates of the student’s home state. For example, instate at Colorado is about $13k, but 150% of Wyoming instate is about $6500 for the lucky Colorado resident who gets the WUE scholarship. Utah, Montana and other flagships offer similar deals.</p>
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<p>Moving a family is quite expensive. Even renting a one-way Uhaul can be a $1000 easily when moving a family-amount of stuff across state lines. And if you have to hire people to help you load/unload the big stuff, then that can be another $1000 or more.</p>
<p>New DL’s, setting up utilities, cable, internet, etc at the new place all adds up. </p>
<p>We recently moved 150 miles (same state) and it cost a lot of money. We did have to hire “help” on both ends to help load the truck and then at the new destination to help unload the truck. </p>
<p>Seriously, the idea of the family moving doesn’t sound like a well-thought-out plan. If the parents are working, unlikely they will immediately find employment at their new location…another “cost” to the family. And it becomes more difficult to find housing when the family doesn’t have the income to show ability to pay. </p>
<p>Plus, the student would not get instate rates for at least one year…maybe never since the family wouldn’t be able to show that they moved to the state for any reason other than the child’s education. </p>