<p>My daughter seriously considered U Ok for the NM 98,000 (nearly a full free ride) but instead listed UIowa as she won the Iowa Presidential scholarship which stacks with other scholarship monies to be a full free ride (and they give a refund check every term for monies not spent-important as she’ll be in an apartment not the dorms if she attends Iowa. ) She has also been accepted to Caltech, MIT, UChicago, Cornell, Wellesley and next week we hear from the other Ivies…but what is most important are the financial aid packages each school offers. A full ride at a state school is making it difficult for our family to want to spend the signficant monies for an undergraduate degree at a private prestigious college. So we wait to learn HOW MUCH…</p>