Hello, I am a US citizen living in Australia and have just completed one year at a university here. I want to transfer into your university. My degree her is a bachelor of commerce, and im interested in commerce related subjects, but also some science fields and language fields, most notably Japanese and chrio, and finance. How hard would it be to transfer to your university (any uni in USA) from my university here in Australia. Is their any info that fits my situation, as I cant find any. Also please take note that degrees in australia are 3 years long, not 4 years like the USA, so would i become a 2nd year? 3rd year? My current GPA is around 4.9/7.
Also, as i live overseas, im not sure if im still a resident to washington as thats where i lived last. I have lived in Australia for over 6 years now, and we have a house in oregon and washington, so im not to sure which state im a resident to. From my research, i am not a resident to any state, and it was stated on many sites that people in my situation is often a case by case basis in which the university decides if i pay local or out of state tuition. For this tax stuff, we only do federal taxes, no state tax, as all the money is from australian work.
You might be considered as OOS in WA and Oregon if you haven’t paid state taxes. You would need to ask those schools in that state.
For any other state, you would be OOS and pay OOS fees.
International Transfers are difficult because some coursework may not transfer and you may have to redo a number of courses. plus, you have to hope you can be admitted. Each school would have to decide how to include your units.
Often there is a physical presence required to predetermine residency. A few states will let you gain residency while in school but many do not. Read all the details to see if there is any way you can qualify. If you can’t determine it after reading the websites and links then email your circumstances and ask.
US colleges usually require a certain amount of units to graduate in total, and within that a certain amount, usually 2 years at the diploma granting institution. For the total there are usually breadth requirements (distribution reqs, gen eds) in addition to your major classes and you will have to fulfill those. See the graduation requirements on each college website as they vary considerably.
The greatest likelihood is that you are a resident of no state, since your parents are not even filing state tax returns. But as u pointed out, many states decide this type of situation on a case by case basis.
Are your parents still registered to vote in Washington state? Do they have a car registered in WA or a bank acct in WA?
I’d contact the university in WA to ask (the squeaky wheel gets the grease). Simply owning a home in Oregon is probably not enough, since owning a vacation home doesnt make one a redident.
I’ve got a US drivers license, bank acct, and even have a car registered, but still couldn’t convince the state university that we are residents of that state.
Read the information on in-state status very carefully for the various community colleges and public colleges and universities in both states. Each place sets its own policy about this, so it may be easier to qualify for some but not for others.
If you can be considered in-state if YOU live there and work there and make enough money to cover the majority of your expenses, then perhaps you could move to the property that your family already owns in that state, get a job, and work for the length of time required to qualify as an in state resident. This type of gap year would give you an opportunity to get used to living there before you have to be in school.
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if i do one year out of state at WSU, would i become in state the year after?
this really sucks, why isnt their like a waive for people like me. this is stupid. In australia, theirs no issue like this, if you want to study in perth, just fly there and study, no extra pay or anything.
Because in Australia the funding for the universities comes from the Federal government and in the US it comes from each state. There is no ‘extra’ pay to be ‘out of state’ in the US: there is a discount to be ‘in-state’. And the reason for the discount is that state taxpayers have contributed to the cost of running the university through the taxes they pay.
A good way to tick off people who are trying to be helpful is to not even pretend to be trying to do your own work. @BrownParentgave you the links for both your states. Simply clicking on those links will tell you- right at the beginning of the page- that the answer is NO. And it is increasingly ‘no’ around the US as state universities have found that more people were taking advantage of such loopholes.
so i just viewed the WSU residency info PDF file closer, and i have noticed that most of the info i do fit in well, EXCEPT the domicile. Now, ive read that the domicile means our home state that we live in, and if we dont live there, the one to return to, which in this case is WA. Though, on the website it states in general, in state is given out by domicile, so technially would i fit in as a in state then?