Is UMich a good choice for OOS students?

ucbalumnus
Thu, 17 Jul 2014 15:53:04 +0000

mom2collegekids:

I am not sure what you mean. What should we be seeing when the income difference is two bucks?



Usually, increasing income by $2 does not increase the net price after financial aid by $13,019 like it does at Michigan for $34,692-$34,694 in the NPC test runs.



PurpleTitan:

I don’t expect UMich OOS fin aid to be as good as the full-need schools as they are still using OOS tuition to make up for the decrease in state funding (compared to the past).



It looks like Michigan is specifically targeting the low income OOS students for good financial aid, since Michigan has relatively few low income students overall. Note that the lower-middle to upper-middle income range still gets rather poor OOS financial aid – giving good financial aid to those relatively numerous students would likely be much more expensive than to just a small number of low income students.