Yes, UMass Amherst seems to offer a lot of OOS merit money, since even with maximum OOS merit, they still get about 10K/yr more from those OOS than from the in-staters. It seems that they are trying to balance the honors college with a mix of humanities and their STEM majors, especially comp sci, for which they are also highly ranked. If they offered honors solely upon stats, they’d have an entire honors college community made up of CS majors, I fear.
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