Residency for admissions criteria?

willtohelp
Tue, 29 Apr 2014 23:45:36 +0000

Thank you both for trying to help, but I’m looking for the criteria for “residency for admissions”, which is not the same as “residency for tuition”.

Okay I found this:

University of California Counselors;



A student is considered a resident for admissions purposes if he or she can answer yes to any of the following questions:

Have you attended high school in California for at least three years and will graduate or have graduated from a California high school?
Have you lived in California for the last 12 months?
If you’re under 18, does your parent or legal guardian live in California?
Is your parent, legal guardian, spouse or registered domestic partner an employee of the University of California or a UC-affiliated national laboratory?
Non-immigrants (students on a foreign/non-immigrant visa) are not eligible for California resident status for admissions purposes.



I don’t know what they mean by “lived in California for the last 12 months”. Do they mean the 12 months before submitting the application? If that’s the case, then I would need to live in CA for at least 18 months before starting class at UC, rather than the 12 months for the in-state tuition requirement. I’m wondering if there is a definite fine print to be found on another page/PDF to clarify this.

I’ll try asking my CCC counselor. I’ve read plenty of horror stories that involved a student simply taking a counselor for their word so I try to avoid having to do that if I can find other sources to confirm what they say. :)

I’m currently out of state, about to start online CCC classes. I’m over 23 and I’ll be moving to California sometime 3-15 months from now… not moving there simply for school but relocating there indefinitely. But if I need to be living in CA for 12 months before applying to a UC then I better be moving there sooner than 15 months from now! Hope is to take 2 years at CCC then transfer to a UC in Fall 2016. If I somehow manage to get a degree then I intend to work in CA. Basically I intend to have all the proofs for in-state tuition at UC but don’t know what the admissions residency entails exactly.