<p>First off, sorry if this is in the wrong section. I didn't know whether to post in the community college section or this section.</p>
<p>Little background info about me:
-Graduated highschool as a junior, finished with a 3.6(?) and 2020 on SATs
-Currently in San Diego Miramar College
-Finished 15 credits, taking 25 credits
-Getting kicked out of the house
-Want to move to Ann Arbor, Michigan so I can transfer to the University of Michigan</p>
<p>Here are my questions:
How many credits do I need to transfer into the University of Michigan?
Can I work for a year and then start community collge again(so I can acquire Michigan residency)?
What grade do I need to be to transfer?</p>
<p>I know it's a lot but thank you all for helping me out.</p>
<p>UMich takes transfers regardless of number of credits, but they do give preference to those transferring at the junior level (55+ semester credits).</p>
<p>You can work for a year and start CC again. Though, MI community colleges are far less strict on residency than anywhere else I’ve seen.
Officially, a lot “require” you to wait 6 months to a year… but…
In reality, for the most part, so long as you have a MI license with an in-district address, you’ll get in-district tuition.
But this only applies at the CC level. Universities are more strict about it.</p>
<p>I am sorry to tell you that your plan is not likely to work if what you’re saying is that you’d first go to community college to establish residency and then transfer to Michigan. I suspect Michigan would still charge you Out of State tuition since their residency office is strict unlike any other on this front. Being independent will not assist you either since you will not be able to use that argument with FAFSA until you are either 24 years old or have taken legal action to be deemed estranged.</p>
<p>While I could be wrong, I want to give you an example – there was a story in the Detroit News a year or so ago about a couple who attended UMich as undergrads (from out of state), then married, then husband went to grad school at UM, then each spouse worked and lived in Michigan for an additional period, then the wife attempted to apply to UMich as Michigan Resident and was not granted residency because she ‘started out’ as an out of state student and being in Michigan for education purposes does not represent a permanent domicile.</p>
<p>You can talk to the registrar’s office about this, but I am not at all optimistic.</p>
<p>PS - You know OOS tuition is $34,000 k, plus another $12 - 14 all expenses in, right? You realize that FAFSA efc of ZERO still only give you a $5500 grant; $5500 combined loans, exta $2000 if your parents can’t get a plus, and that you’d have to hope that Michigan would give you a GRANT for the rest, right? So this is just not very financially viable if you cannot change your residency.</p>
<p>PS - I didn’t answer one of your questions – roughly 43% get in with GPAs of 3.5 and higher (aim for higher). Good letters of recommendations from your college profs will help. UMich prefers that you have 2 years under your belt so they can get a true picture of college performance.</p>
<p>One final note about the residency thing – they are savvy to every trick in the book, BUT if you had an employer in CA, who then transferred you to AA, where you worked and lived for a while, then attended CC and THEN applied to UMich you migh have a legal entitlement to Residency (so long as they couldn’t prove your intent was all along to evade OOS tuition ;)</p>
<p>The problem with UMich and residency is that they have a posted policy… but that policy is anything BUT concrete and is SO objective that they can enforce it anyway they see fit.</p>
<p>Thanks for all the input! I have more questions for you guys. </p>
<p>Do you guys know anything about the University of Minnesota’s policy on establishing residency?</p>
<p>Do they have a required number of credits to transfer?</p>
<p>I don’t know if this is relevant but I was accepted to the University of Minnesota afer highschool. They said they would have given me a full loan on tuition, books, rooms, etc.</p>