We went the other direction. DC is at Purdue, which he chose over VT.

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Anonymous wrote:There are tons of OOS kids at all of the VA public schools. So I guess plenty of people are happy to pay OOS tuition to go there!

Lots of New Yorkers go to WM.

Jon Stewart of Daily Show went there.

Not a New Yorker when he went, he is a Jersey boy.

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Anonymous wrote:There are tons of OOS kids at all of the VA public schools. So I guess plenty of people are happy to pay OOS tuition to go there!

Lots of New Yorkers go to WM.

Jon Stewart of Daily Show went there.

Anonymous wrote:VT engineering - heck yes. It's one of the top engineering schools in the country.

And so is UMD Clark School of Engineering. They have NASA Goddard right down the street. A huge brand new Kim building which is state of the art and top notch. They are the only university that has a neutral buoyancy tank/facility in the country to mimic weightless conditions in space. Not to mention Clark just donated another $219 million in October to expand the engineering school and research even more. Internships are close by in DC as well.

US News Top Engineering Schools
UMD #22
VT #30

Best Colleges Top Engineering
VT #17
UMD #25

Top Engineering College 2018
UMD #17
VT #25


Also, if you decide to not pursue engineering or other science degrees, UMD has so many other offerings.

Anonymous wrote:VT engineering - heck yes. It's one of the top engineering schools in the country.

+1. VT is top 10 in several areas of engineering, and top 15 overall. There are also some specialty programs there. A top 10-15 architecture school. Some specialized agriculture programs. Not for a humanities degree, no.

VCU has some unusually strong departments in the Health Sciencs School, and a 6 year/ direct admit med school program. These might be worth it.

The question is what is your in state option, and can you get into a VA state school with a significantly better choice?

VT engineering - heck yes. It's one of the top engineering schools in the country.

Anonymous wrote:There are tons of OOS kids at all of the VA public schools. So I guess plenty of people are happy to pay OOS tuition to go there!

Lots of New Yorkers go to WM.

I find UMD and College Park to be totally banal, so I’d pay out of state tuition for VT and JMU even if DC was admitted to Maryland.

Both kids opted OOS over UVA.

No.

DS rooms with an international and two other OOS kids at GMU.

No
In fact would not consider it for UVA. Would consider W and M well worth the price of admission except for the location

There are tons of OOS kids at all of the VA public schools. So I guess plenty of people are happy to pay OOS tuition to go there!

We would have paid OOS tot VT, only because it was DS's second choice and DH's alma mater. Fortunately though, we didn't have to!

Other than UVA and W&M are any of the other VA publics worth paying out of state tuition?
If you lived in MD and don't get in at UMd would you consider paying full OOS tuition at VT, JMU, GMU or others?