<p>@OHKID: Kettering looks like a great place
@Coolbrezze: How difficult is UofI urbana-champaign for oos?</p>
<p>UIUC is not a good option for a student who only has $15k to spend. He’d be OOS. The COA is over $40k per year. UIUC is not going to make up the difference.</p>
<p>Publics don’t usually meet 100% of need, and there is usually a gap in cost coverage that must be met with more student loans. For a student such as the OP, that could easily add up to $100k in student loans by graduation.</p>
<p>COA per year for OOS students , State Universitites
$25,787, U MINNESOTA
$31,872, VIRGINIA TECH
$34,812, U IOWA
$35,029, U WISCONSIN
$36,210, OHIO STATE
$35,311, U N CAROLINA
$40,086, U GEORGIA
$36,977, RUTGERS
$34,696, TEXAS A&M
$34,922, U DELAWARE
$36,094, U FLORIDA
$32,752, U PITTSBURGH
$37,416, U MARYLAND
$36,985, U WASHINGTON
$37,548, CLEMSON
$36,848, PURDUE
$39,146, U CONNECTICUT
$38,120, GEORGIA TECH
$40,130, U ILLINOIS
$39,510, PENN STATE
$37,644, INDIANA U
$38,566, MICHIGAN ST
$48,041, UC IRVINE
$49,193, UCLA
$50,306, UC BERKELEY
$38,974, WILLIAM & MARY
$43,742, U TEXAS
$49,926, UC S BARBARA
$46,699, UC SAN DIEGO
$48,049, UC DAVIS
$39,483, UC S CRUZ
$42,570, U VIRGINIA
$47,188, U MICHIGAN</p>
<p>It’s not Grinnley, it’s Grinnell-a small (1,600 students) liberal arts college located in rural Iowa aobut an hour from Des Moines and Iowa City. My son attends and he loves it. Your grades and test scores make this a reach-Likewise for UM and Berkeley.
Grinnell appeals to foreign students because the school has a large endowment which they use to provide generous financial aid, especially to increase the diversity on campus. 12% of the students are foreign.</p>
<p>Liberal Arts Colleges differ from private and public universities in that they are almost exclusively focused on undergraduate education. There are generally no graduate programs at all, so no graduate students attend, classes tend to be very small (compared to a public university like Berkeley) and all the classes are taught by professors. Most of these schools are therefore small-less than 2,500 students. Most do not offer pre-professional undergraduate degrees (like engineering, business or nursing), although there are exceptions. While there are research opportunities at most LACs, that is not the focus on the faculty-teaching is. Most, but not all, are rural or suburban.</p>