<p>Hey guys, currently I'm in UF, the best public school Florida has to offer, but when I graduate, I want to go to a better one, which of course is out of state.</p>
<p>I've been told that if you get to that out of state school, you immediately do the process of becoming a resident (ID, registration, etc.) Then you attend the school at out-of-state price until one year after the process (Now you are an official resident).</p>
<p>Is it true that the rest of the the graduate years will now be in-state prices?</p>
<p>As mentioned, I heard it was true, and the UC Berkeley financials page suggests this is possible. But I'd like to hear anyone who has done this or is absolutely sure that this works. Thanks.</p>
<p>In many (most?) states, residency for purposes of attending school does not qualify as residency for purposes of becoming an in-state resident. It certainly would not work in California for purposes of undergraduate school. I don’t know if graduate school would be any different.</p>
<p>We know someone who went to professional school in FLORIDA, and was granted in state residency after one year in this professional school.</p>
<p>That being said…this is not the norm. DS went OOS to grad school. He “could” have had instate tuition the second year IF we had not been declaring him as a dependent on our tax returns during undergrad school. One of the criteria in his grad school state was that parents could NOT declare the student as a dependent for TWO tax years prior to the request for instate status.</p>
<p>You need to check the grad school policies on gaining instate tuition status. The best way would be to MOVE to the state where you want to go to grad school, get a job, pay taxes to that state for a full year before you enroll in grad school.</p>
<p>This would be a better question to ask in the Graduate School forum.</p>
<p>Out of State tuition waivers are quite common for graduate school, however, without any need to establish residency.</p>
<p>It varies with the school. In the past, it was common to become an IS student after a year of grad or professional school. However, with the fiscal problems of many states, this has gone by the board and once OOS, always OOS.</p>
<p>You can’t make any assumptions, you need to go to the residency websites of each state/college.</p>
<p>As BW says, grad students often used to get an OOS tuition waiver as part of an RA or TA position, don’t know how common this is currently.</p>
<p>It depends on the school and the program. DS was a grad assistant. He didn’t get instate tuition…at all.</p>