<p>My parents divorced while I was applying to college as a freshman and my dad moved to CT, which happens to be the state in which the college I will be hopefully transferring to in the Fall(I attended a NY school as a freshman, I currently live in NY with my mom.) If I were to "move in" with my dad to try and receive in-state tuition, how would the proof of my residency work? I would have to change my address on the FAFSA but what would prove that I lived with my dad?</p>
<p>Out of curiosity, why Connecticut? For UConn? New York has so many great in-state schools! My boyfriend goes there, and Storrs is a very boring city. Anyway, I might be wrong, but I think you have to live there for a year for the financial aid to kick in. Other than that, just get it officially changed. Go through the post office and get your mail sent there and whatnot. I could be wrong, but I’m pretty sure how that works. Funny, I’m trying to move to CT, too, but I live in RI, where public college is pretty awful.</p>
<p>You need to contact the university and ask them about their specific policy. Often students whose parents are divorced do qualify for in-state costs in more than one state.</p>
<p>Each school, not even the state, but the individual college makes its own rules on what qualifies for in state rates. You can be in state for one college in a state and not qualify for those rates at another school in the same state. </p>
<p>States are very amenable to giving residency. Means more tax revenues for them in terms of income tax and other things. So that has nothing to do with the colleges and nothing to do with FAFSA either.</p>
<p>Go to that school’s website and find the actual residency form, see if you qualify. Often the schools will go the state in which you lived when graduating from HS</p>
<p>I’ve found that a lot of universities are lenient when it comes to divorced parents. It does depend on the college, however.</p>
<p>ArtsyLover: Yup, UConn. Don’t get me wrong, the NY state schools are great and have very reasonable costs but I was really looking into big schools! I know I should be grateful for the resources I had around me but once I saw UConn I had my heart set on it. I spent my freshman year at home and realized I wanted to get away a little bit further to really experience “college”. </p>
<p>Thanks everyone for the replies, I’ll call the school and see exactly what they want :)</p>