<p>I did see that, britbrat. I would take that to refer back to the description of how that is accomplished, which would be living there for 12 months prior to the first day of classes. I have not yet seen/heard of any state that will allow a student to do this simply by staying and working summers, unless the entire family has relocated to that state. It's possible that Colorado does do this, but they'd be a true exception.</p>
<p>Thanks alwaysamom. I will be visiting there next month, so I will add it to my questions to ask at the admissions office. I will report back when I have more concrete info.</p>
<p>I concur with alwaysamom in post #21. I have not heard of being considered in state after attending a college for the year and working and staying in town for the summer. At my state U, UVM, lots of kids stay in town for the summer and they do not get VT residency because of it. Their parents live out of state and they are considered out of state students all four years. I can't speak for U of Colorado but if they allowed a student to be called in state just for staying in town for the summer, they would be unusual in this way.</p>
<p>I went to the link provided in post 16 to read Colorado's regulations. As I suspected, a student cannot establish Colorado residency simply by living in the state and going to school for a year. The student's PARENTS must have resided in Colorado for a year before the student starts college. Unless the student is at least 22 years old, or married, or emancipated, or a graduate student, he is understood to be a resident of the state in which his parents live. I have copied the regulations and you may read them for yourself. The rules in the state of Colorado are virtually identical to those in other parts of the country. </p>
<p>This issue has come up at least once before on the MT forum and many, many times elsewhere on CC. I have heard of no state that allows out-of-state undergraduates who require financial assistance from their parents to establish residency simply by attending school for a year. States purposely make it quite difficult for out-of-state students to acquire in-state status. If it were really as simple as going to school for a year, no upperclassmen anywhere would be paying the out-of-state rate!</p>
<p>Here are the regulations for Colorado:</p>
<p>In-state status requires domicile (legal, primary residence) in Colorado for the year immediately preceding the first day of class. Exceptions to the one-year domicile requirement are listed at the end of this document</p>
<p>Domicile is defined as your true, fixed, and permanent home and place of habitation. Domicile is a legal characteristic that everyone has, and you can have only one domicile at any one time. Your domicile is your legal, primary residence.</p>
<p>If your parents are not Colorado domiciliaries, you must be a qualified person to begin the one-year domiciliary period. A qualified person is someone who is either: at least 22 years old, or married, or emancipated, or a graduate student. Persons who are not citizens of the United States should read the section regarding aliens for additional information.</p>
<p>Unemancipated minors (students under age 22) are eligible for in-state tuition if a parent or court-appointed legal guardian has been domiciled in Colorado for one year.</p>
<p>Emancipation requires that your parents cannot provide financial support of any nature for any purpose. Parental support includes funds your parents may have previously set aside for your current support even if those funds are in your name. Parents may provide reasonable incidental gifts consistent with emancipation but may not provide significant funds that would be characteristic of a continuing parent-child support relationship.</p>
<p>To begin the one year domicile period, a qualified person must be residing in Colorado with the present intention to reside permanently in Colorado. To demonstrate this intention, you should take all actions that would be expected of any permanent resident of Colorado in your circumstances. These actions include severing from your former state of domicile such usual domiciliary connections as voter registration, driver’s license, vehicle registration, employment, and income tax filing, and establishing these connections in Colorado. </p>
<p>Your in-state eligibility will be lost if you or your parents (depending on your age and parental support) maintain domicile outside Colorado for one year. However, if you are an unemancipated minor, you may retain in-state status if your parents have lived in Colorado at least four years (see FOUR YEAR RULE). Regaining in-state status requires a new one year domicile period.
During the one-year domicile period, you should comply with all legal obligations of a Colorado resident, despite being classified as out-of-state, or nonresident, for tuition purposes. </p>
<p>You may be enrolled in school and you may live in University housing during this time. </p>
<p>You may leave the state for vacations or for other temporary reasons and need not maintain a residence in Colorado during a temporary absence. To maintain Colorado domicile during a temporary absence, you should keep Colorado connections, particularly voter registration and declaration of any out-of-state income on your Colorado state income tax return. On any other state tax return, you must file as a nonresident. However, residing in your previous home state for a substantial period of time (including summer) is some evidence of continued domicile in that place, although such residence does not by itself disqualify you for in-state status.</p>
<p>Thank you dancersmom for finding the documentation that verifies what several of us are saying. Just staying at school for a year doesn't make one "in-state"....everyone would do that to get in-state rates if it were so simple. It is about where your parents live if the age of the OP's son and being supported by parents.</p>
<p>As mentioned before, your son can study his science interest in a BA and need not do engineering. That can be combined more easily with MT. My daughter (not my MT kid) is very interested in sustainability and that is a thrust of her grad school application and she is going into architecture. You can study "green environment" and related issues in fields besides engineering. He may want to examine Environmental Science major programs and what they offer and combine that with MT. He could do a BA in both. Or he could do a BFA in MT and a minor in Environmental Studies and decide to go further with one or the other in grad school.</p>
<p>I know this thread is old, but when I created my own thread, nobody responded :(</p>
<p>What is the acceptance rate of MT majors at UNCo?</p>
<p>I have not figured how to include links to other threads. If you search this forum using “Denver Post” you will find a post by cmu johanna’s mom (7/11/2009) with a link to a newspaper article an MT instructor at UNCo. He was eventually charged with a felony. Hopefully the program has had a chance to recover because it was a pretty nasty situation. I have heard good things about Northern Colorado and it would be nice to know there are options in this part of the country.</p>
<p>This is old- but MT- definitely go UNCO. Sciences- Go CU. UNC actually has a very competitive and comprehensive MT major, so if your son is “dabbling” in MT, he may not get cast in many productions at UNC at all. He would actually have a better change getting cast in CU theatre productions as a science major that “dabbles” or minors in theatre. The MT acceptance rate is very low at UNC. Each year they have about 500-700 auditions from what I’ve heard, and the freshman class is only around 15. </p>