<p>Knights09 - If you do a search on the College Board website you’ll come up with SC’s residency requirements for tuition purposes. They have a separate page for each state.</p>
<p>My parents moved to Virginia about three months before I started attending UVA. My father even got a job with the University. They knew they would have to pay OOS tuition the first year but petitioned for in-state rates for my second year. The initial request was denied and the appeal was also denied. They eventually hired a lawyer who got us another appeal which was finally favorable. One of the key things that helped change their minds was that my mother had been born and raised in Virginia, and had lots of relatives there, making it much more likely that they would stay after I graduated and pay taxes to the state. I was not employed in Virginia other than work study until the summer before my fourth year. While it was very difficult to get in-state rates after applying from out of state, it is not totally impossible under the right set of circumstances. As it turned out, I moved out of state right after graduation but they stayed there for another fifteen years.</p>
<p>This College Board site provides a helpful guide to residency requirements (for tuition purposes) in every state: [Guide</a> to State Residency](<a href=“http://professionals.collegeboard.com/testing/international/state]Guide”>Higher Education Professionals | College Board)</p>
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Again, you’re wrong. I know people who moved here, got an apartment, got emancipated, paid taxes in VA for a year and received in state tuition during their sophomore year.</p>
<p>In Georgia, you generally have to have lived in the state a year BEFORE enrolling in college. Without that year of residency, you’d have to show something unusual (parent was relocated to the state by an employer, military reassigned you to the state, etc.).</p>
<p>No. Not now. Not never. Never has been. There are endless scams and creative plans to save money with in=state tuition which the schools all fight like the dickens. Why? Because they admitted you PRECISELY because you are paying out of state tuition rates and it helps their budget. Yes money is a HUGE factor in admissions.</p>
<p>AS Roger stated, there are many issues.</p>
<p>Things to help: vote, car registration, paying state income tax only in that state, and owning property (if you live in a dorm, you will find it very hard to declare residency). But hey, Hillary did it.</p>
<p>At UCLA, a student needs to show financial independence for two calendar years prior to applying for in-state residency. Also, s/he needs to have lived independently, i.e., outside parents’ home, for most of that time. So, yes, you can go home for holidays but not for the entire summer vacation. If the dorm room was paid for by the parents, that probably won’t suffice either.</p>
<p>The best way is to get in-state is to get full time job and have your employer provide a letter to that affect to the university. That’s been my son’s experience</p>
<p>UCs are more strict than CSUs, my Ds friend at a CSU is able to establish residency in CA as as student.</p>
<p>There are certain requirements- address, DL, voting, car registration, etc. Also, you need to stay in your new state and not go ‘home’ for holidays & summer.</p>
<p>But, CA and many other states specifically include any time when you are in state and in school for more than half time units.</p>
<p>For grad school it is much more mellow and they are inclined to want you to be a resident when you are doing a PhD, though not so for professional schools like MD & JD</p>
<p>This varies state to state</p>
<p>In California, it is almost impossible to qualify for a change of residency once you have enrolled. The main drawback for most students is that they must prove that they are financially self-sufficient. That means they can not be living with a relative in California, and that they must prove that they have paid for their first few years of school by themselves – the documentation requirements are quite strict, including a budget that shows EXACTLY how the student is supporting themselves AND paying for school on their own. If a parent has contributed at all (including taking a PLUS loan), they won’t qualify. They also can not go home during summer breaks, etc.</p>
<p>Very, very few students get approved for the UCs and Cal States. Yes, you’ll hear ancedotal “stories” of kids who did, but no one should come to California expecting that it will work out.</p>
<p>Here is the link to the UC system page, which has links to the individual UC schools. Cal States follow similar procedures: [University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/ca_residency.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/ca_residency.html)</p>
<p>As others have said, depends on the state. My son is making choices to establish residency in the state where he attends college, largely because he plans to live there, and to make it easier to take classes at the local university, as some other students at his LAC do on occasion. To that end, he registered to vote there immediately, lived there during the summer, receives a very small amount of support from out-of-state family (I think it will be less than $200.00 this year). While he’s considered a dependent student for FAFSA purposes, all of his financial needs are met by grant-only financial aid or his own employment income. All of belongings are also in that state, as is his permanent address. He will file state taxes there this year. </p>
<p>He’s considered a legal resident of the state, but may not be deemed that by the state university system there. His hope, however, is that if/when it ever becomes an issue, the years of choices demonstrating that he considers that state his home will help.</p>
<p>Our S received in-state residency at UCLA halfway through his junior year. He was financially independent and totally responsible for his expenses, plus he lived and worked in CA pretty much throughout the year with the exception of one week’s vacation in the summer and coming back East for the holidays. He continues to be a CA resident.</p>
<p>if you want to establish CA residency, it’s important for you to CA driver’s license, CA voting record, if you work and are financially independent, then have the tax return show that your intent to stay in CA even after graduate. plus, a bunch of other stuff…</p>
<p>I went to community college for 3 years just to work and support myself, before I decided which school to attend, I called the registrar office on each campus. Some would tell what they look for ahead of time, and some would say no right away. UCD is a tough one to appeal, but I got my resident tuition in the first semester after I transferred to UCB. </p>
<p>The process is painful and long… but, it really saved me a lot of money… PM me if you have questions!!</p>
<p>College students in New Hampshire can claim their dorm as residency in order to vote. This is nice for those who don’t live in a swing state.</p>
<p>One of the requirements I would have had to fulfill if I had chosen to go to UCSB for grad school was immediately declaring myself a resident of California. I imagine as a grad student my situation would have been different, though, since all of them ought to be financially independent from their parents since you’re usually supported by a stipend.</p>
<p>Incidentally, at Caltech they don’t care if I keep my Pennsylvania residency since it doesn’t make a change in my tuition. :rad:</p>
<p>Dartmouse, that’s not a NH thing, that’s Federal law. A ruling a while back determined that all college students have the right to vote where they attend school. That’s different than residency for the school’s tuition purposes, but choosing to vote where you go to school does help establish intent to participate locally. </p>
<p>One of the problems with the ruling is that many towns have sought to disenfranchise student voters by not providing them with close polling locations, not having enough voting booths, or requiring state ID’s (as Ohio has). In one recent situation, Oberlin College issued utility bills with a zero balance to every student showing their address on campus, to ensure that every student had valid proof at the polls and prevent disenfranchisement.</p>
<p>OP, you’re not the first person who’s thought of trying to pay in-state tuition by claiming they’re a resident. So far as undergrad goes I think it’s generally impossible to try doing this (and the schools, and the state, are very strict about enforcing it). </p>
<p>The reasons, of course, are quite obvious. The reason in-state students get a discount is because they, and their parents, have been living in the state for some time and paying taxes (income, sales, etc.) to the state. The tuition discount in-state students get is due to the subsidy the state pays (from the income it collects from resident’s taxes) to the school. </p>
<p>Now if you move to another state to go to school there neither you or your parents have been paying tax there. Therefore neither you or your family have been paying into the pool used to pay for those nice tuition breaks. Furthermore, although you may have a job while at school the taxes collected on that income (if any) wouldn’t even come close to paying for the in-state tuition discount. </p>
<p>If they gave you a discount and, after graduation, you moved home or to another state then you would have just milked the system with the state getting nothing in return. </p>
<p>Therefore, why should the state use other resident’s tax money to pay for your tuition subsidy when neither you or your family paid into that pool? They shouldn’t of course and that’s why they’re so strict about enforcing the whole ‘in-state’ status thing with undergrads. </p>
<p>If you want an in-state discount for undergrad then you’re going to have to attend a school in the state where you have established residency.</p>
<p>(P.S. As already noted, students are able to register to vote either where they go to school or where their parents live… however this is different from establishing legal residence in a particular location).</p>
I’m moving to nyc for school and do not have parents – would I be able to live in a dorm, get a full time job and still have my first semester in a dorm counted? any idea where I can get this info?
thanks!