<p>Agree as well and thanks,blueiguana for posting the facts on Virginia engineering!</p>
<p>Unlikely to be successful. You need to understand the concept of “domicile”, which is the place that you actually live and that your life centers around. You can have multiple residences, but you can only have one domicile. </p>
<p>It is very hard to change your domicile, since it usually requires you to cut nearly all ties to the previous domicile. This is of course, easy if you actually move and sell your other house, but if you still have your old residence, its a little more problematic. Unless all your bank accounts and drivers licenses change, as well as your phone records and atm withdrawal records to show that you spend almost all of your time in your “new” residence, its unlikely to get the result you want.</p>
<p>Not a top student, attends a secondary type state school, and the cost is significantly more then what the Fla school is OOS…i have said this isn’t a good idea,in many ways…</p>
<p>Just tell your friend to download and read the residency form, most states ask about amount of time spent in the state. Your friend MIGHT be able to actually move to FL and use her home to establish her residency, but as was stated above, I think the school would expect the kids to have attended FL HS</p>
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<p>Too bad your friend didn’t invest in the FL prepaid tuition program. Grandparents can buy these. For under $6000, my son could have gone to a state school 4 years. There is some reciprocity with other state schools, like Ga Tech, as mentioned.</p>
<p>I’d love to know why people who can afford to let a Florida vacation home sit empty most of the year are so eager for taxpayers and honest families to subsidize the cost of their kids’ educations. I mean, I know why, but I’d love to know what they’d say.</p>
<p>Even in a slack market, selling that second home ought to cover the OOS tuition bump for a few years.</p>
<p>Eastcoascrazy,</p>
<p>How long ago was it that you had to jump through all these hoops? As of July 1, 2009, military dependents are guaranteed in-state tuition where the military member is stationed - it was part of the Higher Education Act. All you need are orders; driver’s licenses, etc do not matter. And the student is guaranteed in-state as long as he remains continuously registered.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that residency requirements can vary from school to school (at least they do in Michigan - much harder to be in-state at UofM than at other schools). Take a look at the websites of the schools that may be options and see what the requirements are.</p>
<p>Cap: first time was fall of 2008, second time was fall of 2010.</p>
<p>I think the issue was that, while we live in Maryland, my husband’s orders were to Walter Reed, which at that time was still in DC. So my sons were applying to be considered as instate residents in a state where we lived, but didn’t pay taxes, and where my husband was not employed. </p>
<p>And yes, we did have to send in those items for S1, who was 18 at the time. S2, who was only 17 at the time of applications, didn’t have to submit as much. He hadn’t yet registered to vote, and hadn’t yet been employed. We only had to submit it one time for S1, who is now a junior at U-Md. S2 chose to attend a college in a different state.</p>
<p>In the end both sons were considered in-state in Maryland for tuition purposes. Regardless of what the “guarantees” are for military families, we still had to submit those items at the time of the first application as proof .</p>