<p>“So, it is the general feeling that OOS may be an acedamic match but $$ will be very difficult to get?”</p>
<p>Yes. Public universities have as their first mission to educate the students of that home state whose parents pay taxes into the system. It is unrealistic to expect a state university to subsidize a smart student from out-of-state when there are deserving students in-state already.</p>
<p>I think there are quite a few colleges that will give this young man a lot of money to entice him to apply, but they just won’t have the prestige name the parent wants. I think the parent will have to decide what is more important, a low college bill from a school that doesn’t have a “name” or a higher college bill from a school with a name. But I don’t think this young man can count on both. Dad II, which is more important to your friend, the name or the money?</p>