sighborg

hi all, I've been accepted to a program in my state of residence with tuition remission, stipend, and health insurance, and while my stipend is very generous, it's still much less than living wage in this city. I'm trying to figure out ways to negotiate a little bit better of a package, and my question is this (and it might be a stupid one, so bear with me): are programs technically paying less overall for in-state candidates than for out-of-state candidates? for example, for University X, in-state tuition is $4000 and out-of-state is $10000. candidate A is in-state and candidate B is out-of-state. both have a stipend of $9000. is the program actually paying out more for candidate B ($19000) than candidate A ($13000)? and more importantly, is this an appropriate thing to bring up with the DGS in trying to negotiate a more reasonable stipend/funding package? thanks for the input!

short-time lurker here, but I really love hearing folks talk about how they came to comp/rhet. I came from creative writing, and even though I've been doing this for ~2 years during my MFA, I still feel green. I wonder sometimes if that's the nature of comp/rhet: greenness, wide-eyed curiosity, all of us (many from different fields) coming to the table without ego or preconceptions. at my current institution, comp/rhet classes usually involve a rotating food schedule (the program is very small and tight-knit), so in all honesty, I came to comp/rhet because of the food.