OOS tuition helps keep IS costs lower. Isn’t this pretty common at public colleges?

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

So your family does not routinely carry health insurance? That is pretty risky.

My kids are on Medicaid and it covers only a small geographic area right around where we live. So my kids always have to get the school health insurance. Stanford is the most expensive. About $8k per year. But for most kids on Medicaid, their financial need is high enough that the school usually covers all of part of the health insurance plan. The cost of the health insurance plan and any financial aid for that is something I consider when evaluating the total COA.

That’s Bean soup. I think you know that.

Your situation is unusual.

Anonymous wrote:In my opinion, and clearly each person‘s mileage will vary on this, I would not pay OOS fees higher than my in-state public options for any public university.

This is just a personal choice. Different students are different. Different families are different. Do whichever makes sense for your family.

Public universities, such as UVA, offer an abundance of opportunities, resources are phenomenal and provide a great education. I would suspect these are a few reasons why it receives a boatload of OOS applications.

Your cost is even less if your kid moves to an off-campus apartment. Dorms and meal plans are expensive parts of the stated cost.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

So your family does not routinely carry health insurance? That is pretty risky.

My kids are on Medicaid and it covers only a small geographic area right around where we live. So my kids always have to get the school health insurance. Stanford is the most expensive. About $8k per year. But for most kids on Medicaid, their financial need is high enough that the school usually covers all of part of the health insurance plan. The cost of the health insurance plan and any financial aid for that is something I consider when evaluating the total COA.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

So your family does not routinely carry health insurance? That is pretty risky.

They are just being argumentative because they were caught trying to exaggerate IOS costs and FWIW, our kid did UVA all four years on our policy, as did our kids in other schools

+1. All schools offer a tack-on fee for health insurance if not covered by the parent’s policy. W&M (public) is $4k. Even privates, like NYU at a whopping $100,880 a year, offer it as a tack-on. https://www.nyu.edu/admissions/financial-aid-and-scholarships/cost-of-attendance.html

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Obviously, you know very little about UVA.

They clearly know nothing. UVA is a state-supported PRIVATE school. Yes, I said it. UVA is an elite private university.

Exactly! UVA is among the HYPSM of Virginia.

UVA is comparable to HYPSM nationally.

In my opinion, and clearly each person‘s mileage will vary on this, I would not pay OOS fees higher than my in-state public options for any public university.

This is just a personal choice. Different students are different. Different families are different. Do whichever makes sense for your family.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

So your family does not routinely carry health insurance? That is pretty risky.

They are just being argumentative because they were caught trying to exaggerate IOS costs and FWIW, our kid did UVA all four years on our policy, as did our kids in other schools

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Anonymous wrote:Deferred
FCPS
3.97uw/4.5w
1450 sat, reported
Varsity and club athlete in one sport, long time rec player in a second sport
Heavy involvement, awards, and leadership in theatre
Leadership in journalism ec with many locally published articles
Four years volunteering as coach and religious education teacher
Creative writing major

Sorry!

What do you think might have been the sticking point? Maybe the “religious education” part turned off the admissions officer?

what makes you think there was a "sticking point" for this kid? His stats are right at the lower edge for FCPS scattergrams admission, and he's competing against
all the other kids from his school. He was no more likely or less likely than anyone else. The Creative Writing major for a boy probably got him from reject to deferred.

Yes. His SAT is too low. 1510
Is the 75th percentile, which you should hope to have coming from a NOVA public. 1470
is the median. A 1440 is too low.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

So your family does not routinely carry health insurance? That is pretty risky.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

I was dumbfounded when I saw the oos price! It’s not even in an expensive city!!

IT’s only $80k for OOS, not what the PP is trying trying to claim (they are citing a tiny program for 3rd and 4th year because they got caught lying here. UVA is the same for OOS as the other great publics: UCLA, Cal, Michigan.

Correct. It's 80K for the college of arts and science which is where about 80% of kids attend. Sure, few kids join the Commerce (business) school but that is next to impossible to get into so it's highly unlikely it will be your experience or your tuition bill.
Also, you're not paying $4k in health insurance unless your family is not insured. And this is the same at any college: you don't have insurance, you have to buy the university plan and it's always around $4K for the year and sometimes more.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

Just stop. OOS cost of attendance is not 95k!

Correct - it’s $80,328 for 2026-27. https://sfs.virginia.edu/financial-aid-new-applicants/financial-aid-basics/estimated-undergraduate-cost-attendance-2025-2026

We looked at UVA carefully last year for our oos kid. The FULL cost of attendance is not that 'estimated' price. Comes to about 85k for year first year. And then for data science, engineering and nursing and many other programs cost goes up to 95k per year. Read the details and don't forget that you may need to add the 4k health insurance that is not included in the estimate. And travel. 80k is not accurate for oos budget planning.

You got caught in a lie. It’s $80,327 for Arts & Scuences which is, by far, the largest college and also the number that all college references use. That does include travel and incidentals. You cannot point to 3rd and 4th year programs in small, unusual high-cost fields and claim that to be true across the board. That is u fair. It’s the same with UCLA, Bot and Michigan

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to the accepted students! I dont get the appeal of uva oos. The cost of attendance is 95k! So expensive for a state flagship experience.

I was dumbfounded when I saw the oos price! It’s not even in an expensive city!!

IT’s only $80k for OOS, not what the PP is trying trying to claim (they are citing a tiny program for 3rd and 4th year because they got caught lying here. UVA is the same for OOS as the other great publics: UCLA, Cal, Michigan.

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Anonymous wrote:Rejected for engineering 1550 SAT, 3.9 GPA (UW), ok ECs but none ‘engineering related’.

Interestingly….in at VTech, a T5 (with Honors college), a T10 and a T20.

Which T5 had an honors college?

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True. There isn’t one. Good catch

Purdue - 5th for Graduate, 8th for overall undergraduate and in the top 5 for what DC wants to study….but thanks for the gotcha 🙄

If you are going to use "T" numbers, they generally refer to overall rankings of USNWR, not graduate or major rankings. LACs also have their own rankings.

And the PP is correct, there are no honors colleges in the top ranked universities.