<p>According to this article the regents are reviewing the residency requirements which IMO are among the toughest in the country:</p>
<p>The U-M regents are reviewing the policies and could push for change, Regent S. Martin Taylor said.</p>
<p>“My concerns were based on the fact that several cases had come to my attention over a number of years and I thought there were questionable decisions made,” he said. “It is highly subjective.” </p>
<p>…</p>
<p>‘It’s a perennial issue’</p>
<p>The public university has a number of circumstances under which students must prove their residency, designed to ensure only bona fide Michigan citizens pay lower tuition, while those coming to the state just for a Wolverine education or other temporary reasons don’t reap the same benefits.</p>
<p>Just because someone may have graduated from a Michigan high school, carries a Michigan driver’s license, pays income tax to the state, owns a house in Michigan and has stayed here every night for more than year, he or she isn’t necessarily a permanent resident, according to U-M’s residency rules.</p>
<p>“Just because someone may have graduated from a Michigan high school, carries a Michigan driver’s license, pays income tax to the state, owns a house in Michigan and has stayed here every night for more than year, he or she isn’t necessarily a permanent resident, according to U-M’s residency rules.”</p>
<p>Damn straight. Why should you qualify for 4-5 years of benefits if you’ve only been here for one year?</p>
<p>Yes, porterGoBlue, but they/their parents have been paying Michigan state taxes their entire lives as well.</p>
<p>If a kid moves here during high school or whatever, I think the school is right to give them a tough time. It’s a difference of $80,000 or so in tuition…since the kid would be likely to leave just as easily as they came in, why not give a tough time? If you’ve lived in the state your whole life, you’ve supported the university your whole life.</p>
<p>They may review the policy, but it’s unlikely they would make any changes that will make much difference to the typical CC poster. It’s still going to be very hard for a non-resident to get residency status.</p>
<p>I had to deal with this stuff bc i was born out of state- i was born in virginia in 1988 and moved to MI in 1989, i have lived here ever since - graduated from HS here too</p>
<p>. Although nothing on the application says stuff about being born out of state. It was a pain in the a**. they didn’t change my status until the start of this semester after i had paid and such for oos tuition. huge pain, had to send tax info and billing info for the past 10 years into them, made it even more complicated bc we have a house in FL too so they kept trying to pull stuff on that.</p>