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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]
Name them and the scholarships than would make them cheaper, please.[/quote]

Iowa, Iowa State, Oregon, Oregon State, South Carolina…my kid received enough from UGA that would bring the cost below what PP was paying to Alabama and that was just normal merit aid, not some special honors college scholarship…lsu…I could go on.  NC State is another that gave my kid merit to bring it lower than what PP is paying for Alabama.

If you spend anytime researching you will find these and many other schools award lots of merit to any kid with decent stats.

Again, PP wasn’t getting a full ride…just enough to bring total cost down to $30k/year.[/quote]

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