Live in one state, go to school in another - how does it affect residency considerations afterwards?

DinnerPlate
Mon, 04 Dec 2017 03:07:28 +0000

I guess I could have explained myself better, and I’m sorry if I sounded so confusing, so here’s my second try:

I do not currently live in Minnesota. I want to establish residency there, so that I can get in-state tuition AND because I want to live there for its own sake. I would hope to attend the University of Minnesota Twin Cities [UM for short], and I am primarily interested in Grad school at UM. But I do not want to move to Minnesota and wait a year or more WITHOUT attending school just so that I can establish residency, as is normally required to do so, as thats just too much time wasted for me. If I live in Minnesota, but go to school over the border in Wisconsin, to a Wisconsin school that is CLOSE [this can be done, there are Wisconsin colleges near the Minnesota border, notably around the Twin Cities area], and do so for a year or two’s worth of classes and credits to transfer, or maybe complete a degree, THEN apply soon after to UM for further education, will my time have counted as fulfilling the Residential / Domicile requirement of living in Minnesota and not attending school, since in such a case I would have been going to school in Wisconsin, and not in Minnesota?