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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seriously why are people looking or choosing OOS Alabama? It’s one of the lowest ranked schools and keeps declining. What am I missing?[/quote]

Money. My DS's friend chose it over Virginia Tech for Engineering. He's OOS for both, Alabama gave him $28K per year, VT gave him nothing. [/quote]

There are probably 20 other schools ranked much higher that would have provided $$$s to bring the COA lower than Alabama (based on the above, this means the kid is paying $30k out of pocket).

It’s fine if there were other things bf s the kid wanted, but apparently didn’t do his homework on what other schools would offer.[/quote]

Alabama is BY FAR the most generous school in the country in terms of non need-based merit for VERY high achieving kids (think perfect SAT, NMF types).[/quote]

PP said their kid received aid to bring the COA down to $30k/year.  By default, he was not NMF or a 1600 SAT.

My kid with a 1400 SAT was provided aid at UGA to bring COA down to $30k/year.  His buddy attending South Carolina with similar stats was provided in-state tuition, so assume that would bring COA down fairly low.  Another kid attending Oregon with like 1300 SATs received a merit scholarship bringing the cost down to only like $20k/year.

I would be curious what those schools would offer for 1600 SAT kids.[/quote]

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