I would have a tough time paying those OOS prices for the California schools knowing that 90% of the students will be paying way less!

Anonymous wrote:U. Michigan is not a real public. I think it gets only 3% of its operating costs from the state.

Same with UVA but I think it's 5-6%. But they both provide a substantial discount to in-state students so they are certainly operating for their public from that perspective. They both benefit from 33-40% out of state students paying those high rates.

My son got into UC Berkeley but it was impossibly expensive. Going to UMCP on a full ride and doing amazing things.

U. Michigan is not a real public. I think it gets only 3% of its operating costs from the state.

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Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/10-colleges-highest-tuition-fees-state-students-140000035.html

For these prices, you might as well apply to private universities!

DD would really like to attend one of the UC schools. Bummer on the costs.....

My DD wants to attend a UC school also. Still a better price than most of the private univesities. No desire to attend UMD.

There's out-of-state, and then there's way-expensive-out-of-state. It varies a lot

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Anonymous wrote:Nothing extraordinary about those prices, considering that even VT for OOS is $34,861.

"Even VT"? Did I miss where college tuition is supposed to be proportional to its USNWR ranking?

VT is a great school, but my point was that even a school that seemingly everyone in VA and MD applies to costs almost as much as the ones in that cost profile. The costs of the schools in the bottom part of that ranking aren't shocking to anyone who has considered sending their child to an OOS school in recent years.

Anonymous wrote:http://news.yahoo.com/10-colleges-highest-tuition-fees-state-students-140000035.html

For these prices, you might as well apply to private universities!

DD would really like to attend one of the UC schools. Bummer on the costs.....

Anonymous wrote:Nothing extraordinary about those prices, considering that even VT for OOS is $34,861.

"Even VT"? Did I miss where college tuition is supposed to be proportional to its USNWR ranking?

Anonymous wrote:Nothing extraordinary about those prices, considering that even VT for OOS is $34,861.

Ha! Most of the private schools in this area are $1,000-$2,000 more than VT OOS.

Nothing extraordinary about those prices, considering that even VT for OOS is $34,861.

Mine applied to the top 2. He applied because they are good schools, not because they are public. He applied to plenty of private colleges as well.

Not sure why a public college should be expected to offer bargain rates to OOS students. We have a state based system, not a national system, so their funding priority should be to their in state students. Of course UVA gets very little public funding, not sure about the rest of them.

7 of the 10 are ranked top 50 by USNWR. My DD applied to 3 on this list OOS and 2 in state. The 2 privates she applied to would still be another 15k per year.

...until you see the cost of private universities.

http://news.yahoo.com/10-colleges-highest-tuition-fees-state-students-140000035.html

For these prices, you might as well apply to private universities!