In State Tuition at UCI?

[buiBeast]

<p>Hi, due to family problems, my father is finding me a place to live in CA for my senior year of highschool with a guardian, if I do live for one year and graduate from a CA highschool, will I qualify for instate tuition as long as my guardian has been paying the state taxes? or does it matter where my father/mother reside?</p>

[moonchild]

<p>I’d be very careful about this. I think this person might have to be your “legal” guardian, which would then mean that your parents give up guardianship. I don’t think you can just live with a friend and qualify. But I may be wrong. I would ask the registrar at the college and see something in writing before I made that assumption.</p>

[HCOdude]

<p>I think you would have to have lived on CA for two years or more, to qualify as a resident for instate tuition.</p>

[Erin_s_Dad]

<p>From the UCI site: [UCI</a> Office of the Registrar - Residence Classification for Tuition Purposes](<a href=“http://www.reg.uci.edu/residency/classification.html]UCI”>UCI University Registrar - RESIDENCE CLASSIFICATION FOR TUITION PURPOSES)</p>

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To be classified as a California resident for tuition purposes, you and/or your parent(s) must have established a permanent domicile in California for more than one year immediately preceding the residence determination date of the term you propose to attend the University. You and/or your parent(s) must provide evidence that all ties to the former out-of-state residence have been severed and that California has been the primary residence for more than one year.

Looks like your parents need to move, too. And more than a year in advance.</p>

<p>BTW, you could have found this same info in the time it took you to post here.</p>

[bluebayou]

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Hi, due to family problems, my father is finding me a place to live in CA for my senior year of highschool…

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<p>Almost no chance. The rules are clear: you must attend a Calif HS for three years (and graduate) or your parents must move instate. However, if the 'family problems" are abuse or something along those lines and you are cutting legal ties to your parents, you might have a decent chance at an appeal. But that would be up to the UC employee.</p>

[drusba]

<p>Despite the parental rule, you would have a probability of being a California resident for tuition purposes but only if that guardian becomes your legal guardian and ties are being cut with parents for a legal reason (e.g., abuse, abandonment, they are invalids and can no longer care for you). That requires an actual court filing and court proceeding to determine the appointment of the legal guardian.</p>

[buiBeast]

<p>Thanks for the answers, and another detail,</p>

<p>I’ll be staying with my grandmother and uncle, who lives in CA, even if my parents live in another state, is it possible to live with my grandmother and uncle with my parent’s permission and go to highschool there? </p>

<p>if not, would a “temporary guardianship form” work? the one where you don’t need to have the court involved, (after a bit of researching I found a form which authorizes minors to attend school in a different state under the temporary guardianship of an adult/relative without having to involve an attorney/law/court stuff) 1 school year, and I’ll turn 18 btw</p>

[bluebayou]

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is it possible to live with my grandmother and uncle with my parent’s permission and go to highschool there?

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<p>Absolutely, you can attend a local HS near your grandmother’s house.</p>

<p>But to gain instate tuition at the state college system, you would need to attend a California HS for three years and graduate from a Cal HS.</p>

[Waverly]

<p>Sure, you can live anywhere your parents allow you to. It doesn’t, however, mean you’ll be in state for tuition purposes. The CA schools are so broke they are questioning anyone who isn’t clearly a CA resident in hopes of getting OOS tuition.</p>