<p>I probably know the answer to this question but I want to ask. My S might be interested in a NY school and my entire family lives in that state. Is there any way to pay in state college fees if he stays with them for a short period of time before attending a NY school</p>
<p>Using SUNY Albany as an example, no.
[Apply</a> for New York State Residency - University at Albany-SUNY](<a href=“http://www.albany.edu/studentaccounts/res_apply.php]Apply”>Financial Aid & Student Accounts | University at Albany)</p>
<p>Google the schools you are looking at and residency for details.</p>
<p>My daughter goes to SUNY. I had to fill out several pages of paperwork - they asked my address, how many years at this address etc. I also had to show proof of residency ie driver’s license etc. Then my daughter and I had to get everything notarized. I think they asked for my daughter’s driver’s license as well. After the paperwork was submitted it had to get verified by a " SUNY Board." The school’s web site states that if a child is a dependent then the parents must reside in NYS. If the child is independent then he/she must be a NYS resident for 12 months before applying. In order to qualify for in state tuition you must prove your residency, and your papers will be scrutinized. It took 2 months for my daughter to get approved for in state tuition, and we have never lived anyplace else.</p>
<p>No. But you already knew that, right? Best of luck.</p>
<p>I am a NYer and my son graduated from a SUNY, and my kids have taken courses from a local SUNY, and none of them put us through the scrutiny that Twogirls went through. But, yes, questions specific to where you you live are asked of the parent if the student is considered dependent. My kids all go/went/graduated from NY high schools and went directly to college, so the process might have been a lot easier. </p>
<p>Be aware that every school has its own criteria for being a state resident for tuition purposed and they may or may not be the same from school to school even in the same state and system. The criteria also often has nothing to do with what is needed to owe state income tax, register to vote in the state, get a driver’s license and register a car in the state, or signing a lease and living in the state. They may or may not be included in the qualification for in state tuition. Then on top of that, each school has its own way of checking up and enforcing their own rules. A local community college might not care to check up on anything and give anyone with a local address in state, in county rates. One of the universities might go through a process like Twogirls describes, And everything in between. There are schools that require a kid graduates from an instate high (waivers given to boarding school when parents are instate), allow undocumented students who have lived 3 consecutive years in state, require parents to live a full year in state, have paid a year’s worth of state income taxes, whatever the SCHOOL requires.</p>
<p>The OOS costs of some SUNY schools is comparable to the instate costs in some other states.</p>
<p>Your kiddo is a resident of the state in which you reside, not NY. But you already knew that.</p>
<p>It sounds like my daughter’s SUNY might be harder than others (?). Last year when we took her to orientation my husband and I went to the bursars office to ask about the bill- we had not received it yet. We were told that our residency paperwork was still " under review" ( it had been under review for over a month) and we would get the bill as soon as it was verified that we qualified for instate tuition. The bill came about 3 weeks later. I do remember the woman telling us that the process takes longer than it used to.</p>
<p>Twogirls, it was never an issue all 4 years with my kid who graduated from a SUNY. We were billed as a NY state resident from the get go and I don’t remember having to do anything to prove it other than answering the questions that we were. But our home address, my son’s school, everything was NY and we’d been here for more than 10 years.</p>
<p>My other kids have all taken local college courses and they don’t even check IDs for residency. Again, you just check off you are in state, in county and get accordingly billed at our local SUNY. My high schooler just took some course that had dual billing rates, and no checking of addresses.</p>
<p>My son’s SO, did apply to state programs in NY and CT colleges, as in state as she felt she could verify residence either way, and had no issues either, though she did not get accepted to the highly competitive programs, but she and son know kids who live on the border who do this and there is no big deal. I don’t know what questions and verification are done. Heck I can’t remember what was filled out last month for my high schooler’s course in terms of state residency, that’s how little of a deal it is. Also my neighbors routinely send au paars to courses at the local colleges at in state, in county rates, and they aren’t even US citizens. These schools just don’t bother to verify anything. I don’t know if they are untruthfully answering anything–in my case, my kids and I are all bonafide residents so the issue never struck me.</p>
<p>I pay full OOS rates for my kid who does go to an OOS public, and have no plans to do otherwise.</p>
<p>^ very interesting how different SUNY schools operate. We had to get the information notarized. They have not asked us to do it again this year- maybe the scrutiny was only for first time students. We always lived in NY and my daughter went to high school in NY. I thought it was a bit much, but I had no choice.</p>
<p>Thanks I figured that. However, how did you get to claim instate for NY and CT? I live in NJ so I can claim in state for NY since we border it?
Also, I am hoping that the other people you know that send au pairs at in state college fees are not telling the truth on their applications because that doesn’t make any sense.</p>
<p>^? You can’t get in state tuition for NY because you live in a bordering state. SUNY does not have reciprocity.</p>
<p>Wouldn’t the school your child graduates from be a big tipoff on state of residence, unless they attended boarding school?</p>
<p>Many kids in NY go to private high schools in NJ. These kids get transported each day by their home district in NY. The schools are close- 30 min.</p>
<p>yup, private school is also a possibility. But, I am sure having a diploma from a public in another state is a red flag.</p>
<p>If you live in NJ…you are instate for NJ only. You cannot get instate tuition in NY just because it is a neighboring state. You have to RESIDE in NY state to have instate residency for tuition purposes…and you need to be there at LEAST 12 months prior to your child’s college start.</p>
<p>You KNOW you are instate for NJ only. Why do you keep trying to find a loophole to gain NY in state status. There are no loopholes.</p>
<p>thumper1: why did you say I keep trying to find loopholes…I asked one question and then someone mentioned on this thread that they were able to file in state in CT when living in NY so I questioned that person…thats all…if you noticed I did say I already probably knew the answer but wanted to ask.</p>