I am still in the mix of deciding between Penn State, UW Madison, and UMass Amherst. I am a US citizen but live abroad so I am not a resident of any state. I am accepted at all of these three, but am considering deferment for one year (all of them allow accepted students to defer their admission for up to one year). The problem is my parents are not nationals, so I can not take the Parent Plus loan and the amount I have to pay (or take student loans) as an out-of-state student is substantial. As I was accepted as an out-of-state student, and I defer admission, work in any of the three states for one full year, pay taxes and get registered with that state’s government, will I be counted as an instate when I enroll the following year into their university? Or they would still consider me as an out of state student because at the time of my admission, I was an outsider?
I couldn’t find anything concrete about tuition related to deferment on their respected websites, so any help would be appreciated.
