<p>give strong financial aid (scholarships/grants) to out of state students?</p>
<p>none that i know of... you'd probably have the most luck if you applied to a school where you were above their average student so they'd want to give you merit aid. i got no aid from the 3 OOS publics i applied to (maryland, wisconsin and indiana), and they would all be at LEAST $8,000 more per year than all the privates i applied to, which gave me aid. so maybe you'd want to consider a private school?</p>
<p>^what the previous poster said.</p>
<p>Not many publics give aid to out-of-staters. Most universities are far too eager to collect the higher tuition.</p>
<p>Look for honors programs at OOS unis. They may give scholarships. Also, different states have different reqs for residency.</p>
<p>University of South Carolina has three scholarships specifically for out of state students. In all three cases, in addition to the scholarship award, the tuition is reduced to the instate rate. McNair Scholars, Cooper Scholarship, McKissick Scholarship.</p>
<p>thumper1 is right. My S was offered the Cooper schoalrship to Univ. S.C. as an oos student. In addition he was offered a place in the Capstone program there (sort of like honors) which if accepted gave additional scholarship money.</p>
<p>University of Alabama gives full scolarships to those at or above a 30 ACT ang 3.8 GPA.</p>
<p>Ohio University has a scholarship program that gives a scholarship+a non-resident discount to students with certain test scores. I think a 31 ACT gets u full in-state tuition plus a 2500 non-resident discount automatically</p>
<p>Arizona State & Oklahoma State give free rides to Nationa Merit finalists... probably a few others as well.</p>
<p>New Mexico State University offers the following:
<a href="http://fa.nmsu.edu/sch/outofstate.html%5B/url%5D">http://fa.nmsu.edu/sch/outofstate.html</a>
For transfer students considering the University of NM: <a href="http://www.unm.edu/%7Eschol/trans/amigot.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.unm.edu/~schol/trans/amigot.html</a>
New Mexico Tech:
<a href="http://www.nmt.edu/prospective/admin/sch/mint.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.nmt.edu/prospective/admin/sch/mint.htm</a>
New Mexico Tech is one of the nations "best value" undergraduate institutions, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features the state-supported research university in the new 2007 edition of its college guidebook, Americas Best Value Colleges.</p>
<p>I heard Pittsburgh gives out nice scholarships to qualified out-of-staters to make their tuition approx. equivalent to an in-stater. Pitt is a pretty expensive public school though (only gets partial funding from the state).</p>
<p>Automatic Scholarship Offers for Entering Freshmen </p>
<p>Out-of-State Students 2006-07</p>
<p>27-31 ACT or 1200-1390 SAT (math and verbal scores only) with at least a 3.7 cumulative GPA, will receive $1,250 per year, or $5,000 over 4 years
32-36 ACT or 1400-1600 SAT (math and verbal scores only) with at least a 3.7 cumulative GPA, will receive a Presidential Scholarship at the value of out-of-state tuition for 4 years</p>
<p>U of Arizona and U of Iowa are pretty good for oos merit $$$. Not sure what their current criteria is for scores, gpa, etc., but beware the changing requirements for merit $$$ at places like U of Miami(private), as they raise the bar as they have become more selective.</p>
<p>Washington State has some nice $$ for High acheiving out of state students that really knock the price of tuition down and a $2,500 a year for national merit on top of that.</p>
<p>Both Arizona schools offer good $$ for high achieving out of state students as well.</p>
<p>Wyoming has a new progrm to attract better students and will offer quite a few full rides as well to OOS. The requirments are just now bing drawn up.</p>
<p>In Utah if you go to school there for 2 years you automatically qualify for resident tuition.</p>
<p>There are options out there. If they will meet your demonstrated need $$ you are doing pretty well</p>