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Does it depend on the date that you apply? Or the date you graduate from high school? Or does it not depend on the date, just where you live when you apply?
My son is planning on moving back to CA from GA before he turns 18 and will be graduating from a CA high school, but he will be attending school in GA and using GA transcripts to apply for schools with November/December/January admissions deadlines.
Different states have different residency requirements. Your son will be considered a resident of whatever state in which he holds his address of record.
Different states have different residency requirements. Your son will be considered a resident of whatever state in which he holds his address of record.
Maybe yes, maybe no. Some states the qualification is where your parents reside. Other states it is where you graduated from high school. Some states you can't gain residency unless your parents move to that state and take a job in that state. Some states all you have to do is live there over one summer. In those states, some schools have different requirements as well.
2peaches2oranges-this is not a question that can be answered here. You will have to talk to the admissions departments at each school to find out their policy.
I think the standard rule is where the parents are living the students senior year of high school is the one that is considered their home state. Where the student lives has nothing to do with residency unless they are an emancipated minor, which is pretty rare.
But usually it does take some time, otherwise people would just move and wait a semester or year in order to get cheaper tuition.
That definitely happens. In the state where I did my undergrad (which was not my home state), at the time, residency could be established in 30 calendar days (no idea if that's still the standard). It didn't matter for me, as I went to a private school and residency had no bearing on tuition.
When my best friend left our school and wanted to enroll in a public university in a neighboring state, he was required to live there for 6 months to become eligible for in-state tuition, so he had a hiatus from school until that time.
As noted, depends on the state. I was looking at an out of state school that required you to live in the state for one year before they considered you an in-state resident.
Does it depend on the date that you apply? Or the date you graduate from high school? Or does it not depend on the date, just where you live when you apply?
My son is planning on moving back to CA from GA before he turns 18 and will be graduating from a CA high school, but he will be attending school in GA and using GA transcripts to apply for schools with November/December/January admissions deadlines.
OK, this situation is a little difficult for me to understand, as it seems as if your son doesn't live with you??
In any event, a 17 yo high school senior would be classified according to his parents' residency in almost every case. Only "emancipated minors" can claim residency apart from the parents, and emancipation has some difficult requirements to fulfill. Since your case seems complicated, I think you will have to talk to the people at the schools involved. Of course, if your son chooses a private college, none of this matters.
Yes, my son does not live with me now. He lives in Georgia with his father who was recently laid off and probably going to accept an offer for another position out of state. I have lived in California for almost 4 years. My son will be moving to California and attending HS here before he turns 18 next year. He will be applying to Cal State - Long Beach & Northridge; UC - Santa Barbara & Riverside. There websites say that state that he will be considered a resident if he lives here with me, his parent, in California and is under age 18.
My dilemma is that the deadline to apply to the UC/Cal State schools are BEFORE he moves to California (November 30, 2013), and while he is still in Georgia. The plan is for him to move during the Christmas break or his Winter Break in February. Either way he will still be 17 next year, but when he applies this month he will still technically be a resident of Georgia. Does it matter what your residence is when you APPLY or when you ACCEPT or ??
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