Out of State College Freshman Tuition

From what I know, states vary in what makes someone a resident. For example, in Indiana, you can't become a resident of the state just to get in state tuition. I think it might depend on dependency as well, if a student is claimed as a dependent in the home state in state tuition is not allowed in the school state. It all depends - I would ask the financial aid office!
I am sure others will have better info here!

You may want to check with the university/college on their policy on out-of-state grants in aid, scholarships, etc...after the freshman year. It happened to me (many years ago) with my football scgolarship at Washburn University, a D2 school, in Kansas. Being from St. Louis, my freshman year was paid in full at the out-of-state rate. When I went through my enrollment/registration the following August I was shocked when my scholarship was reduced to in-state levels, about 1/3 of the out-of-state amount. There was no communication from the staff/administration that I needed to declare Kansas residency. This was a requirement that was in my grant-in-aid fine print that I did not know about. We had a complete coachng staff change as the staff that recruited me was fired hours after the last game of our 2-8 season and this undoubtedly contributed to the mix up. Subsequently I got my Kansas drivers license and my tuition was reduced to the in state level for the remainder of my education...

I have done some research on this. We live in Illinois and I was talking to schools in Wisconsin and Iowa. To establish residency, they said that you had to live in the state for a year without attending school, or only take a maximum of six hours in classes per semester. The purpose was to show that you were clearly intending on living in that state, not just trying to get your tuition reduced to in state rates.

You need to go back to talk to the school, and their policy. I think that the info given here is correct to some extent.

Years ago when money was plentiful schools were pretty liberal on awarding in state to out of state residents but things have changed. Schools are in trouble and they rely on out of state tuition for more income. If it was that easy everyone would be doing it. I know that my son's teammate's parents had to move to the state of South Carolina to establish residency for in state tuition for their son, not just him establishing residency. You can establish residency in any state, but that doesn't mean that yu will get reduced tuition.

Some places have agreements on bordering states, you give my resident in state and I will give yours type of thing, check it out.

Thank you very much for your responses. We will look closely into all possibilities and ask more specific questions when we start applying to out of state schools.

Be careful. For example at the U of A even if you have proof of residency in Arizona (ie drivers license, library card, voter registration, etc.) ifyou hold an kind of a job out of state (like a summer job) you are considered out of state for tuition.

Best to understand if you are out of state you are just out of state.

My son attended a state school in Nebraska and paid out of state tuition (minis scholly) his 1st year but then got his drivers license and voter regestration card and paid in state the following year. He was told by coach if his GPA was 3.0 or higher he coulda got in-state both years.

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Originally posted by plash3:

My son attended a state school in Nebraska and paid out of state tuition (minis scholly) his 1st year but then got his drivers license and voter regestration card and paid in state the following year. He was told by coach if his GPA was 3.0 or higher he coulda got in-state both years.

You mean your son missed 1 complete year of in-state tuition because your son's coach failed to mention to him about having a 3.0 gpa?