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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have you considered OOS auto merit awards?

Oklahoma

http://www.ou.edu/admissions/affordability/scholarships.html

Alabama

https://afford.ua.edu/scholarships/out-of-state-freshman/

Arizona (The Arizona Tuition Award)

https://financialaid.arizona.edu/2025-2026-terms-and-conditions

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lol why would you send your kid to college in Oklahoma instead of JMU? you people have truly lost the plot. [/quote]

Because Oklahoma’s merit makes COA competitive while also offering more programs, sports, etc.  So it’s an option for some who want to go OOS - oh and it’s higher ranked than JMU (132 vs 148).[/quote]

[b]That’s the point - it’s demented to put so much store in going out of state [/b]and on rankings like that. [/quote]

"Demented" seems a bit extreme.   
Some people WANT a change of scenery.    Going to  a school where 40 other kids from your class, plus dozens of others that you know from church, out of school ECs, etc.  isn't what everyone wants.[/quote]

DP.  My kids attend two of the VA in-state schools and in no way are there "40 other kids" from their class.  There are maybe 5-10 from their high school - and they never, ever see any of them.  [/quote]

NP here - 40 other kids was an exaggeration but you could be pushing 30 at VCU and JMU from each large NoVa high school. VT has 20 from many NoVA high schools.

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Yes … so? THIS IS A GOOD THING.It means the state taxpayer-funded higher education is working as it should. [/quote]

If you read the thread, you'd know it wasn't about that. It was about people not wanting to relive experiences with people from high school.[/quote]

If your kid thinks having a few dozen HS classmates on a campus of 40,000 students is some kind of huge issue … your kid is pretty immature and spoiled. Which isn’t unusual for a 17 year old, but hopefully parents aren’t encouraging or reinforcing that, right? [/quote]

First, there are no publics with 40k students in VA and no, VT has not yet hit 40k students. Second, your comment just makes you sound like a douchebag, and that's the least surprising thing about posters on DCUM. [/quote]

VT has 38,000 students.

How is that a douchebag comment?[/quote]

DP.  VT has 30,000 undergrads.  No one includes grad students when talking about "number of students."[/quote]

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