As in, they let an Out-of-State student pay instate costs if they meet certain requirements.
I’m not asking about actually trying to become an instate student by living there for a few years or anything like that.
At University of South Carolina, if you get a McKissick or Cooper Scholarship, you also get instate tuition.
I believe at University of North Texas, if you get a scholarship in excess of $1000 a year from the school, you also get instate tuition.
Usually it’s a merit scholarship that either directly covers the OOS portion or indirectly does.
For instance, the Alabama UA Scholar scholarship covers 2/3 of tuition, so it actually covers MORE than the OOS portion. The Presidential covers all tuition…even the instate amount.
What are your stats?
Where do you live? If you are in a Western State there are many schools within the WUE consortium. If you qualify academically, you would pay 1.5 x in state tuition, which could still be quite attractive. www.wiche.edu/wue
what state do you live in? some schools offer in-state tuition to students from neighboring states. For example, West Virginia University offers in-state tuition to some students from Ohio, depending on major.
There are other regional affiliations with reduced school pricing, too.
Midwest: http://msep.mhec.org/
New England: http://www.nebhe.org/programs-overview/rsp-tuition-break/overview/
Southern: http://www.sreb.org/page/1304/academic_common_market.html
Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville charges MO, IA, WI, IN, KY, TN, and AR residents in-state tuition.
Missouri State - 3.0 gets in-state tuition
U of Missouri-Columbia , the same… (but double-check, they keep changing it…)
Slippery Rock U, PA - 3.0 gets in-state tuition.
There are also merit scholarships at many schools, usually regional/directional publics, that essentially waive the OOS fee and let you pay in-state rates.
The Midwest Student Exchange Program, mentioned above, is not always in-state tuition, but very close to it. Those schools charge no more than 150% of in-state tuition, and there are some good schools on there.
UT-Austin offers a very few waivers to the tippy top OOS students.
I’ve heard the FSU offers instate to students who do the first year (semester?) abroad at one of the special programs, which I think are in Spain, Panama, and 2-3 other places.