Is it worth the cost to transfer to an out-of-state public?

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<p>I’m stuck in a state that has decent in-state public schools, but nothing amazing. I’m considering transferring out to a better school after a year or two (I’ll be a freshman in the fall) and a lot of the schools on my radar are publics. Unfortunately I’m not sure that I have the money to spend 25+k a year on tuition alone. </p>

<p>Mainly talking about schools like Uni of Virginia, Uni of Florida, Ohio State, Uni of Washington, UCLA, Uni of Texas, etc.</p>

<p>Should I look more at privates?</p>

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<p>AFAIK, UNC meets 100% of demonstrated financial need for its students. If I were in your shoes I would apply to a bunch, see what type of aid is offered, and go on to make a decision from there. I still think that most publics will be less expensive than many private schools that you could consider, but I may be wrong.</p>

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<p>May I ask why specifically out of state public schools? There are private schools that are the equivalent or about the equivalent to some state schools that will most likely offer you more financial aid, ie USC and UCLA.
USC takes a large amount of transfers. Another school is Northwestern.</p>

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<p>Sometimes schools that are expensive based on tuition have large endowments and financial aid pools to help students. Also the best way to look at it is as an investment. If the schools OOS cost slighty more, but the starting salaries for recent grads at those schools are several thousand more, you can recover those costs post-graduation and likely make more over the course of your career. But if the cost is a lot more then your current school, you may prefer to not have a large debt post graduation. Also if you plan on going on to graduate school right after undergrad or very soon after then you may want to not have a large debt with the costs of grad school as well. Since you’d be graduating from grad school thats what people will see. If you go to a okay in state for undergrad, but apply yourself and go to an Ivy for grad school then the instate won’t really matter that much.</p>

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<p>UNC does not meet full need (though it is close). According to the common data set 1218 students need was fully met out of 1271 determined to have need (95%).</p>