Also wanted to add--if your instate is hard to get into, try being out of state! OOS requirements are often higher and much more competitive because there are more people trying to get into less seats.
Ok so on the surface this obviously seems true, but most of the OOS applicants are also IS applicants elsewhere as well as OOS applicants at multiple schools. So if you consider that a school may have 700 OOS applicants for 20 seats (<3% chance of acceptance), the applicant to seat ratio across the country is published as a 2.1, so 47-48%. I agree that to get into a particular OOS is more competitive, really I'd call it more of a crap shoot. Some applicants aren't qualified, some just don't look good on paper, and sure the GPA requirements are higher, but the OOS waitlists do move some. I think it comes down to luck on if you get picked or not for some OOS schools. If you look at some of the acceptances, there are plenty of people who have posted with multiple OOS acceptances. Some even who got rejected to their IS, which always kind of blows my mind. In those cases either the applicant didn't have what the school wanted, didn't interview well, or maybe the monkey and the dartboard wasn't in their favor. I do think that if you have a low GPA or some other hurdle on your application that you have to work around/over then that 2.1 ratio isn't as comforting as you are going to have to work harder to be on the positive side of that statistic...but overall, a 2.1 ratio is really not as competitive as an individual schools stat of 20 out of 700 may seem. You just have to know where your effort is most likely going to yield positive results, and apply to those places. This isn't to say that it's not frustrating or difficult to get in OOS. I didn't even bother to apply OOS because of finances, but also because I realized how difficult the stats made it seem. Overall 2.1 ratio is not that bad. But 700 to 20 is VERY competitive, so if that one school is your only application or your top choice, then yes, then you have to look at just that one school's stats and it's a dart board game. If you are applying to multiple schools then your chances go up since that overall ratio across the board is 2.1. I hope this rambling makes sense.
If you are still waiting on acceptances this round, best of luck!
For reference, dental school ratio in 2010 (only data I could find quickly) was 2.4 (42%) and I think medical school was a little over 2.5 (40%) for 2015. Vet was 2.1 and declining.
As to the OP, do whatever you can/have to do to save money and get IS or cheaper tuition. You'll thank yourself later!