<p>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”.</p>
<p>Okay I found this:</p>
<p><a href=“University of California Counselors”>University of California Counselors;
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<p>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. </p>
<p>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. :)</p>
<p>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 <em>admissions</em> residency entails exactly.</p>