Please tell me about some great schools where the COA is under $35,000 a year

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<p>Well tuition at YCP is the same for OOS and in state students, so it makes sense. Temple really isn’t that bad for OOS tuition.</p>

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<p>JMU’s a great school. If an urban atmosphere is important, though, she won’t find it here. Or at least what I think of as an urban atmosphere.</p>

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<p>Does JMU have a good “college town” atmosphere? She mostly doesn’t want a school in the middle of a residential area with no restaurants, stores, etc.</p>

<p>And to all you helpful people, how would one get from JMU to Dallas? Via one of the DC airports?</p>

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<p>Well, I live here but yes, I think it’s very much a college town atmosphere. Stores and restaurants do not compare with Dallas; we generally head to Richmond or D.C. (both about 2.5 hours away) for “serious” shopping. Charlottesville also has good shopping - about an hour away. There are some great local eateries (not chains, but we have those too). What I have done when travelling is fly from Weyers Cave Regional Airport direct to Dulles - then fly out from there. I think the flight to Dulles is $99 round trip but it’s worth avoiding the driving and parking fees. Lots of kids from NoVA and OOS so getting a ride to Dulles probably wouldn’t be a problem either.
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<p>Tuition at Emerson College in Boston is right around $30K. It’s a very urban campus right in the city–no large expanses of lawn. Its strongest academics are in the area of communications, journalism, and tv, radio, and film production. Kids can get lots of hands-on experience because there are great studio facilities. I know a few kids who’ve gone there from our local high school; it’s become quite popular in the last few years. Southwest Airlines now flies into Logan–it also flies out of Manchester, NH and Providence,RI which are about an hour from Boston.</p>

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<p>I think the best bargain on the planet is BYU (Brigham Young.) Why more non Mormons dont apply there is really a mystery to me. It is clean , safe and has state of the art facilities. You do have to promise not to drink alcohol for the time you are there , and also coffee. You can have herbal tea, etc.</p>

<p>But the education is wonderful. ny daughter is a junior and has participated in research from the middle of her freshman year. She has been published in two scientific journals and is now looking at top notch grad schools–</p>

<p>The best part-she has almost no loans for undergrad, so she has no financial worries about grad school.</p>

<p>It is a large school (30,000) Campus really reminds me of Penn State, where my son looked. Funny , number one party school and number one stone cold sober school have something in common!</p>

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<p>[Tuition</a> and Fees - Office of the Bursar - West Chester University](<a href=“http://www.wcupa.edu/_INFORMATION/AFA/fiscal/bursar/tuition.asp#UndergraduateOutofState]Tuition”>http://www.wcupa.edu/_INFORMATION/AFA/fiscal/bursar/tuition.asp#UndergraduateOutofState)</p>

<p>West Chester in Pa. is a great college in a great little college town. About $22,000 total. about 40 min from phila airport</p>

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<p>@hollyanne: I’m generally a big fan of Utah schools for their more restrained atmosphere, but I will point out that BYU is different from both U Utah and Utah State in that it tends to attract the more “hard-line” LDS members. That isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but it definitely has a much stronger religious vibe from other schools in the state. Whether that is a good thing will depend on the individual.</p>

<p>Speaking of which, I would add U Utah to the OP’s list. A good school in a nice part of SLC.</p>

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<p>Pacific Lutheran University with 3300 students is about 30 miles from SEA-TAC airport, gives good merit aid, has very friendly students, is not in a great immediate area but a spectacular larger one, and is a very welcoming place for people of all faiths (or none).</p>

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<p>You might look at the Cal State University system in CA. It is overshadowed by the UC system out of state, but has a wonderful reputation in state. The fees are much lower than UC schools. Tuition at most is around $16K. Some have dorms, others do not. Their settings vary greatly. Humboldt State is among the redwoods, and Cal State LA is about as urban as it gets. My son is considering Cal State Dominguez Hills (probably the worst location for the entire system) because it is the only state (UC or Cal State or Cal Poly) school to offer his major. </p>

<p>The other school to check out would be the Cal Polys, two campuses, one in Pomona, the other in San Luis Obispo. Both have great weather and would have lower fees than a UC. Only the Cal Poly schools have accreditation (in CA) from a prestigious architecture society for their architecture programs - or so I was told by a prospective architect. </p>

<p>It looks like UC schools would be right on the edge of your COA, but they include UCLA and UC Berkeley, (the only “public Ivy”) known as Cal, or Cal-Berkeley. Smaller and easier to get into UC’s would be UC Merced and UC Riverside. UC San Francisco is only a med school, no undergraduate degrees offered.</p>

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<p>One would be the University of Iowa. If your '11 has great academics may qualify for a scholarship that usually range around 4k ( for four years). Typically half the students at Iowa are from out of state.</p>

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<p>We have quite a few LDS families in our area. From what I’ve heard, they go to BYU for their freshman year, then leave for a couple of years to do their mission, then return to BYU. Doesn’t that mean that most of the folks a non-LDS member meets freshman year wills be gone sophomore year, so they’d have to start all over again socially (with either younger or older kids?)</p>

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<p>If we travel up to Kansas to visit KU and K State, I assume it’s not worth the trouble to stop to look at Wichita State or Washburn, right?</p>

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<p>Out of curiosity,I just looked on the WSU website. There was a link to a YOUniversity TV video about WSU that was pretty interesting.</p>

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<p>“You might look at the Cal State University system in CA.”</p>

<p>We toured Sonoma and Monterey Bay this week and were pleasantly surprised. UC’s 00S would be more the $35k.</p>

<p><a href=“http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm[/url]”>http://students.berkeley.edu/finaid/home/cost.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>What about West Virginia University? What is their OOS? Good basketball & football teams, lots of school spirit etc. I have always heard good things about WVU.</p>

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<p>Radford University-OOS under 35K
<a href=“http://admissions.asp.radford.edu/fit/cost.aspx[/url]”>http://admissions.asp.radford.edu/fit/cost.aspx&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>And how would one get to WVU? Fly into Pittsburgh?</p>

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<p>Check with TheAnalyst. I think that’s where AnalystS2 goes. Good friend of D’s goes there. Looks like you can get a flight from Dallas to Dulles and then to Morgantown.</p>

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<p>missypie, have you looked into the University of Minnesota? It’s quite a bargain for out of state students and you should be able to get a direct flight to MSP easily.</p>