<p>Does anybody know how hard it is to establish in-state residency at UA? The website policy makes it out to be impossible unless you move to the state for full-time employment.</p>
<p>It is very difficult to establish residency in Alabama without coming for full-time employment for a year before going to school for in-state rates. Most states make this difficult.</p>
<p>What is your situation?</p>
<p>Are you a senior in high school?</p>
<p>Did you already apply to the school? </p>
<p>What are your stats?</p>
<p>Daughter is a high school senior in GA. We lived in Alabama for 30 years and have lived in GA 16 years. Grandfather, father, uncle, aunt and cousins are all Bama alumni. Went on Discovering Bama tour in Nov. 2008 and met with a residency advisor who told us that establishing residency was possible if you follow particular guidelines - had to be 19, live off campus for a year, register to vote, pay Alabama taxes (part-time work was sufficient), change drivers license and file individual tax return. He told us that over 700 students that year had established residency by jumping through the necessary hoops. Based on what we were told it looked like residency could be obtained for her junior and senior year as well as graduate school. However, after reading the policy on the website this year, that doesn’t seem to be the case.</p>
<p>Hoping for additional scholarships to lower the out-of-state tuition and make up the difference in the HOPE scholarship.</p>
<p>Stats:
Capstone Scholar
28 ACT/1260 SAT
4.479 GPA
Rank at time of admission: 2/394
Admitted to Bama in September
Admitted to UHF in November
Submitted Scholarship application in November as well as applying for all College of Education and Alumni scholarships.</p>
<p>oops… Collegiate Scholar ($3500) not Capstone.</p>
<p>Well, if that’s what the advisor said, then I guess it’s possible by doing what was described.</p>
<p>So, it sounds like your child would have to move off campus right after freshman year (perhaps getting an apt right in May 2011 and work over the summer). Also, have some kind of job, apply for her license, etc, as the advisor said. Hmmmm</p>
<p>Read through the regulations very carefully. My oldest daughter is going to school OOS in my home state - Virginia. We could establish her residency, voting, license etc…but they have closed several loopholes including is she included on insurance out of state, is the car she drives registered in Virginia, etc…</p>