<p>Son wants to go OOS to Georgia Tech
Tuition is 26K alone. RB 8500.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if your child can become a state resident during/after first year?
In state tuition is 8900.</p>
<p>or does the school consider you OOS since you applied as such upon admission?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>Don’t know about GA in particular, but the usual answer is “No, you can’t become an instate student simply be attending school one year.”</p>
<p>Most states have well defined policies on what it takes for an 18–22 year-old student to become an in-state resident. The easiest, most reliable way is for the parents to move to that state and work and establish residency.</p>
<p>For an OOS 18–22 year old to become an in-state resident without the parents moving to the state is difficult. Usually it requires the kid to move to the state, fully support him/herself for a full year (i.e. NOT be listed as a dependent on mom&dad’s taxes), and NOT take any college classes during that year the kid is establishing the new state as his/her domicile.</p>
<p>Spend some time looking at the Ga. Tech web pages to see what they say about qualifying for in-state tuition to find out how Ga works.</p>
<p>No. A student’s residency for tuition purposes is based on their parent’s state of residency. It is very rare and very difficult for a student to be able to establish residency if they are a dependent (for most colleges a student under the age of 24 is considered a dependent of the parents) and while they are already in the state attending college. If it were that easy there would be no point in having OOS tuition rates.</p>
<p>thanks for your input. We live in NC, looks like NC State for engineering–unless kid gets a lot of academic scholarships. Gtech has a better rating for engineering however.</p>
<p>Most states are on to such plans and have specifically blocked most of the paths for college-age OOS students to obtain residency for tuition purposes, even though the student may well qualify for residency for some other purposes (voting, jury duty, etc.).</p>
<p>We live in Kansas, but each SCHOOL has their own residency policy. The university where I work has a very friendly policy regarding establishing residency. If you register to vote, get an in-state driver’s license, and register your car (if you have one) then six months later you are considered in-state for tuition purposes. So it can depend on the institution. Another nearby public university in our state has different rules that make it much harder to establish residency.</p>
<p>If living at college for a year made you in-state, then colleges would have no out-of-state students after freshman year.</p>
<p>The University System of GA does not permit students to change residency for the purpose of gaining in-state tuition - and the state system is pretty strict about enforcing that policy. If your S would like to attend as IS, he’ll likely have to move here and work for a period of 12 months without financial support from you.</p>
<p><a href=“College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools”>College Board - SAT, AP, College Search and Admission Tools;
<p>Collegeboard has a quick and dirty guide to state residency rules. Here’s Georgia’s.</p>
<p>A common requirement in order to establish residency for tuition purposes is, as was previously mentioned, financial independence. The typical undergraduate is not financially independent.</p>
<p>Tell Son to get his rear in gear and make outstanding grades this next year – and study like mad and get top SAT scores. Sometimes a college will waive the out of state tuition fees for a kid they really want (like a National Merit Scholar or other top student). </p>
<p>You won’t know this is so until the student applies, fills out the FAFSA (on time!) and is accepted (although you can email admissions and ask if out of state fees are ever waived and they might telegraph some clues). </p>
<p>The OOS waiver won’t come for your average B student with underwhelming SAT scores. Tell Son this is where the rubber hits the road – if he hasn’t been much of a student, his options start getting limited. If he’s been working hard, then some doors may start opening.</p>
<p>I found [this</a> article](<a href=“http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/2009/12/31/numerous-colleges-waive-out-of-state-tuition-fees/]this”>http://www.top-colleges.com/blog/2009/12/31/numerous-colleges-waive-out-of-state-tuition-fees/), which is interesting. But it also shows that whether you can waive OOS tuition is indeed dependent on the school.</p>
<p>*We live in NC, looks like NC State for engineering–unless kid gets a lot of academic scholarships. Gtech has a better rating for engineering however. *</p>
<p>I think parent and child are using the same screen name…</p>
<p>The student posted this yesterday…</p>
<p>*Class Rank 32 of 265
UW GPA 3.7 W 4.1
Took SAT Math 670, Read 470, Write 550
I am taking again in fall to better the scores, taking a SAT prep class too.
I am also taking the ACT
*</p>
<p>With a 1140 M+CR SAT, he might not even get accepted to GT because his stats put him in the bottom 25% for GT (those students are often special admits/athletes, etc. His stats are nowhere near high enough for a merit scholarship. GT uses its limited merit scholarships for students they want who have M+CR SATs that are at least 1480+</p>
<p>As you can see below, the top 25% of GT freshmen have M+CR scores of 1430+. GT targets its merit scholarships to students who are more likely top 5 -10% of their incoming class…hence the need to have a very high score.</p>
<p>Test Scores Middle 50% of First-Year Students </p>
<p>SAT Critical Reading: 580 - 680<br>
SAT Math: 650 - 750<br>
SAT Writing: 580 - 670<br>
ACT Composite: 27 - 31 </p>
<p>Don’t worry about rankings. An engineering student from NCState can do just as well as one from GT.</p>