financial aid for oos?

saf
Sat, 28 Nov 2009 10:14:34 +0000

Alexandre,
I think the OP had a legitimate question. Some public universities actually seem to favor giving merit scholarships to OOS students in order to increase the high stat OOS population at their school. For example, the University of Pittsburgh (great school, not as highly ranked as UMich though) has historically given many $10,000 scholarships to high stat OOS students in order to bring the cost of tuition down to what the instate students pay. Those same high stat in state students have gotten $2,000. (There are also full tuition scholarships that go to high stat in state and OOS students but that is beside the point here.) So, UMich may not do this but some other public U’s do. They want to pull students in that live in other states and they may feel that the instate students are already getting a good deal. As far as need based aid, that is where it seems to me that public U’s favor their instate students way more.