Can you defer admission at UM?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Michigan
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<p>Ok, so say I get accepted as a senior, but I get minimal to no aid and can't afford the $45k price tag.</p>

<p>Could I defer my admission a year, move to Michigan, get a job, trying to support myself, for a year, having my spot saved, live in Michigan from summer to summer and enroll in the fall.</p>

<p>I'm not sure about the logistics of it, or will UM just consider Ohio my home state for tuition purposes because my parents live there. I'd get a MI drivers license, pay taxes, etc...</p>

<p>Unfortunately I have no family living in MI, so that will make it a lot tougher, could have saved money on rent.</p>

<p>I've still got a couple of years and we'll see what will happen. I'll probably ask a different board to help with some other details and things I need to think about, but I figured this would be a good place to start. </p>

<p>Thanks. I guess my basic question is can you defer admission and in the meantime change to IS for payment.</p>

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<p>0% chance of your cunning little plan working.</p>

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<p>I’d just go to my 2nd choice school if I were in your shoes. That sounds like a lot of work for Michigan.</p>

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<p>Yeah I know. But I’ve heard of some people doing it. And Michigan is my 2nd choice LOL behind Notre Dame, which makes me sound even more crazy.</p>

<p>So I can’t defer admission or I can’t change my residency. I hoping for the former…</p>

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<p>Residency can’t be changed until the 2nd year of tuition. As you know, you have to become independent from your parents, pay taxes, get a state drivers license, and get a job (not work study, but a job) to show that you are not in the state “only for educational purposes”. Good luck with whatever you chose to do.</p>

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<p>Residency can’t be changed until the second year of tuition? No. Residency can’t be changed - period. Once you begin as an out of state student at the University of Michigan it is presumed that you are in Michigan for purposes of education from then on. It is very strict, and even if you live in Michigan for years, have a family, pay taxes, so long as you are in school, you are out of state. Very hard to convince them otherwise.</p>

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<p>Ditto, coollege…I am intimately familiar with this issue, have read the regulations, been through the process (for a different reason) and fredmar is 100% correct. You absolutely cannot make it work that way so you need to review other options. Repeat: NOT AN OPTION.</p>

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<p>Sounds like you’re scr*wed. I guess you’ll be stuck going to Notre Dame. :-(</p>

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<p>It seems the answer has been provided already, but the short answer is no. Good luck to you in the future, but just letting you know that I feel the out of state tuiton for UM is ridiculous and im really surprised anyone out of state would come here. Dont get me wrong, its a good school and I love it here as an in state student, but 40-50K a year? geez</p>

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<p>If I were you, I would just take out loans.</p>

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<p>I wouldn’t put college off for a year.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I am even having trouble getting in-state tuition. I live in Michigan, and I have for 14 years, but my parents moved at the end of my Junior year. Even though I stayed in Michigan right now I am considered out of state. I am applying for in-state, but there is a chance that I won’t get it.</p>

<p>If you became and independent AND was married in Michigan, MAYBE. But you would have to establish being an independent BEFORE you applied. You would have to have a steady job, as would your spouse. </p>

<p>OOS isn’t worth it. If I don’t get in-state I am going somewhere else.</p>

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<p>To post 12</p>

<p>Wouldn’t you be considered OOS everywhere else also?</p>