<p>Check with the university. The rules may depend on your sources of funding. Are you paying for this graduate program yourself, or will you have an assistantship of some kind?</p>
<p>Back in the last century when I was a grad student in the ag. college at Cornell, those of us who had funding through research or teaching assistantships were encouraged to claim NY state residency. After I looked at the advantages (not many as far as I could tell) and disadvantages (a whole bunch more paperwork to file every year having to do with state grants of funding for my tuition, etc.) I opted out. So did almost all the other out-of-staters in my department.</p>