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Ooops. I think I didn’t say that very clearly. What I meant was that there may have been a rare case where a student had to pay in-state tuition at a state school, although I don’t know of any. If you read that post on this thread about LSU carefully, the person thought in-state tuition was free, implying they were not charged either. Now I don’t think that was case back then, but I suspect the person was not charged anything and just assumed that was “in-state tuition”. In fact of course, LSU would have totally been in agreement with the terms mentioned in President Cowen’s note above. The governor of Louisiana would have insisted on it, if nothing else.</p>
<p>I am rather glad you resurrected this old thread, it is nice to revisit these events and remind ourselves that there are really good and generous people and institutions in this world, despite all the cynicism.</p>