<p>that’s the way it seems for the elite LACs. 95% of applicants are not even bothering to apply to the Ivy’s or elite LACs becasue they keep hearing you need a 2280-2400 SAT and a 3.9-4.0 UW GPA. Public Universities strapped for cash are admitting more full-pay OOS applicants w/ SAT scores of 2000 or better.</p>
<p>Which begs the question for me. So if you think you can’t get into your local flagship university or the Ivy’s/elite LAC, your options may be very good LAC or OOS Public Universities. At which you may have to pay the same tuition. If a kid has pretty good stats, their merit aid might equalize it so the tuitions to those categories of schools are the same.</p>
<p>Trying to figure out which OOS schools are worth paying 28K in tuition for, as opposed to paying the same for a great private school. I know some of the UC schools are, but any others?</p>
<p>thats going to depend on the kid, not only some ranking (quality or even selectivity or prestige) of the State U.</p>
<p>OUR kid was so disinclined to a large school, to a “rah rah” atmosphere, etc, that she was leary of our INSTATE publics - we thought about OOS publics, but only took an OOS public for a safety school (which she ended up not needing to apply to).</p>
<p>OTOH there are kids who WANT that atmosphere, OR who want a program that is only offered at a large public, or is particularly good at a large public - for them an OOS public that is not on the usual lists of “elite” publics might make sense.</p>
<p>Kid doesn’t care about the rah rah atmosphere, and is undecided about the major, so…
A friend said UVA would definitely be worth the money, but I’m sure that is tough to get into OOS. Not really sure which schools are considered “elite” publics, but I’m sure looking at the rankings will help pick them out.</p>