Cheating the admissions office...?

Applying to College
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<p>I have a friend (seriously a friend, I’m not talking about myself in the third person) who has always wanted to go to UNC Chapel Hill. We live in New York, so she would be applying out-of-state. And UNC is very selective for out-of-state students, and her rank/test scores just aren’t good enough to get in as a NY resident. But, she has an aunt and an uncle living in North Carolina. She said that she could somehow fake living in NC with them, thus allowing her to apply in state and have a much easier time with admissions…</p>

<p>Is this allowed? And could she actually get away with it?</p>

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<p>I don’t know how the process works in NC, but in VA, there are many hoops through which a student would have to jump to become a resident. Here, the aunt and uncle would have to become her primary guardian and she would have to reside in state for a certain amount of time (a year, maybe?). </p>

<p>There is usually an office that judges status at state schools and they’re pretty quick to jump on cases that look iffy.</p>

<p>EDIT: Taken [from</a> UNC’s website](<a href=“http://www.admissions.unc.edu/faq/residency.htm]from”>http://www.admissions.unc.edu/faq/residency.htm):

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<p>She is still going to be a NY resident because her parents reside in NY and she is still a dependent student.</p>

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<p>And wouldn’t the TRANSCRIPTS be a giveaway?</p>

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<p>Obviously it’s not allowed and it won’t work. Her transcripts and lack of definitive proof of residency would give her away in a second.</p>

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<p>not to mention her taxes when she applies for financial aid…</p>

<p>If I were in her situation, and UNC was truly the ONLY school for me, I’d move to North Carolina for a year and establish residency legally before/during applying.</p>

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<p>I don’t know if there could be a good way around that.
I do remember that I had a friend years ago whom I’ll call Sally. Her father American, was in the army, and her mother was Korean. They lived in Washington state, but after Sally’s freshman year of high school her father was stationed to live and work in Korea for a few years. He got command sponsorship and the whole family moved to Korea, which is where Sally graduated from high school. She applied to the University of Washington, was admitted, and managed (somehow) still to be considered a Washington state resident, though her family was still living in Korea…</p>

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<p>They probably kept their house in Washington and paid taxes to the state of washington, thus making them residents of the great state of washington.</p>

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<p>There is a precedure for military families to establish residency at a domestic post.</p>

<p>From my school:

In other words, there are lots of hoops through which to jump, but it can be done.</p>

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<p>No, I definitely don’t think your “friend” (lol jk) could get away with it.
This is because the college you apply to gets a transcript from the school you go to…so I think UNC would think she has a very long commute to school or she’s obviously lying…lol.</p>

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<p>Many people are under the false impression that if you have a relative or own property in another state you can get residency. It isn’t easy to do, you have to jump through a lot of hoops & in many cases will end up spending as much money doing it as you would save on in state tuition!</p>