Is going out of state worth it?

Sybylla
Thu, 20 Jul 2017 00:02:38 +0000

It is worth trying to get your ACT up, IMO (having kids with a 32 and a 33 and no FA). 32 doesn’t seem to be high enough to get merit at school that would be any better than your instate, but a 32 is good for your instate regents, right? You can pay for room and board? Or commute?
What scholarships are you planning on writing for at this point in the game?

         Reach schools like RH might give you a bit of merit but if the COA is still over 30K, how will that help? I call that smoothing.

Barrett honors is still expensive OOS IMO. Purdue is maybe just a match for a full pay OOS, not a merit option. Uminn honors has ACTs of 34 plus, just admission to unminn for eng is just a match, again, there might not be any merit unless they still have the top 10% option and that will leave a significant COA. Average ACT to u minn CSE was over 31 last intake.