<p>kayf’s complaint isn’t something I’ve ever encountered in real life, and seems to have no basis at all in reality. My anecdata (certainly just as valid as kayf’s conclusions made from CC posters’ reported stats) tells me that Stony Brook’s OOS students are highly qualified, interesting, smart, successful people who I’m glad to have as classmates. Some of them do have merit scholarships that reduce their costs to in-state levels, but most of the in-state students I know with similar high school accomplishments have at least half tuition scholarships. Seems fair to me.</p>
<p>There is no resentment whatsoever toward OOS students at Stony Brook. None. The only time in-state vs. OOS has even come up in my conversations lately was in the context of expressing sympathy and decrying the tuition increase made for OOS students on ridiculously short notice (there was an in-state tuition increase too, but the OOS increase was bigger and more burdensome given the lack of warning). And I’m sure my friends and I who are planning a Stony Brook –> NJ –> Massachusetts –> Ithaca –> Ohio –> Chicago grand tour of people’s home towns road trip after graduation just loathe the out of staters among us!</p>