In-State vs. Out-of-State Enrollment

momocarly
Fri, 16 Aug 2019 18:06:52 +0000

For us I don’t think it was an unfair item that had S choose an OOS school. He transferred from private to a top public school after freshman year. The way they did rankings put him lower on the scale and he ended up top 11%, meaning not auto-admit in TX for the big public he would have chosen. Sure he could have upped his ACT score 1 point and been auto admit but he decided that the fact they didn’t want him because he was top 11% (would have been top 5% if he had stayed at the private school) just sat wrong with him and he chose not to even apply. He found a great deal OOS that made tuition cheaper than in state, a better program for his major and hasn’t looked back. I think TX colleges drive some really good kids away and drive parents to game the system (sending them to rural schools or easier high schools to easily make the top 6 to 10%).