<p>I've emailed some public schools asking about this but they've yet to reply (it's been a week or so), I just wanted to know how does CA's admission for 'in state' students work ?</p>
<p>Case 1.</p>
<p>Student (USC) has international qualifications (A levels) but has been working/living in CA for 2 years + (CA residency for tuition declared and is considered a CA resident), finally decides to apply into a UC. Is that student considered 'In State' for admissions purposes ? Even though student has international qualifications.</p>
<p>Case 2. </p>
<p>Student (USC) completed about 60 credits from a 4 year college in Indiana 4 years ago, and decides to apply as a transfer into a UC now. Has always been a CA resident. Will the student be considered as in-state applicant ?</p>
<p>Does anyone know how it works ?
Does UC/Cal State give preference to someone who has graduated from a CA high school + CA community college only ? Or someone who is a CA resident, but has other qualifications as well ?</p>
<p>Why not just describe you, instead of multiple what if situations and make us play games? People don’t really like to deal in hypotheticals. Are you planning ahead which to be?</p>
<p>Students are usually in pool of instate or oos. Those pools are examined separately to my knowledge, like there are approximately X slots for instate students and Y slots for OOS. Transfers are another story I am less familiar with. CCC students are preferred and there are more slot for them, however 4 year transfers also occur.</p>
<p>@BrownParent thank you for the advice. it’s not for me, hence I could not describe ‘my’ situation. I work at an international school and there seems to be an increase in students going to the US for their higher education. Until recently, I’ve also encountered children who have US citizenship but have been staying out of the country for over 10 years. They are also going back to the US for their higher education. By me asking this question is to better understand the nitty gritty of how admissions work (as how I have found out different states have different ways of admitting students)</p>
<p>My understanding is that if case 1 is a resident there are no bias regarding education that I have ever heard and I am in CA, each is evaluated as a unique candidate…Just that you have to truly meet the residency guidelines to get instate tuition. That’s my strong feeling but I can’t say for sure. For case two, yes if the parents reside in CA and the student has always been a CA resident then that makes the student in a CA pool (if there is such a thing for transfers.) While the system is set up for CCC transfers to be the first priority and those are the majority of transfers, there are spaces for 4 year transfers. Being a super attractive candidate would help.
<a href=“http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/”>http://admission.universityofcalifornia.edu/transfer/</a></p>
<p>@Brownparent thank you for the input. USC means US Citizens. Sorry for not making it clear. I honestly don’t think residency for instate tuition is going to matter for some of the kids here. They do come from wealthy families. But there seems to be a strong interest in entering a UC, hence me posting a thread about this.</p>
<p>Will transfer students be judged mostly on their GPA scores ? I noticed UC’s don’t need LoRs. So I assume the transfer admissions community would focus on their GPA + amount of pre-req completed ? </p>
<p>You know if their parents are not living in CA they are not going to be considered CA residents, just US citizens but OOS for CA. Unless they establish residency and financial independence on their own. CA is very strict.</p>
<p>In case #2, you say the student has always been a California resident. How? Parents live in California? Graduated from a CA high school? If so, then he /she retains CA residence for tuition purposes if she’s just living in Indiana for school.</p>
<p>You need to read what is required for residency in CA. If they are US citizens but not california residents, they’d be in the out of state applicant group, not international.</p>