“It would be nice if the cost would ease up for instate students.” Is this a serious comment? Here’s some food for thought:
- Tuition increases have been capped for instate but remain uncapped for OOS.
- At a recent "Campus Day," the financial aid presenter cavalierly announced that
"if you want to determine the OOS tuition, just double the instate tuition!
While my child has been accepted to and will attend Michigan in the fall, I must tell you that
it appears Michigan administration is, at every possible turn, about as unsympathetic to the
financial plight of OOS students and families as they could possibly be. Interestingly,
they simultaneously state how they value and want more OOS students, and in fact the
OOS students now make up nearly half of the student population. So please don’t be crying about
the need to ease up on instate students. Here’s my response to that: if Michigan truly
wants more OOS students, then make it worth our while to attend a place that has
one of the poorest OOS merit-based scholarship track records among similar quality schools.
Simply put, maybe Michigan needs to put some money where its mouth is, and stop biting the hand that feeds
it.