^^^^^Wrong about CA residency if student is not 19.
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I am less than 19 years old. How do I qualify for California residency?
Minor, unmarried students derive their legal residency from the natural parent or adoptive parent with whom the minor maintains, or last maintained, his or her place of residence.
The residence of a minor cannot be changed by:
The minor’s own act, by the appointment of a legal guardian
The relinquishment of a parent’s right of control as long as the minor’s parents are still living.
The parent must be a California resident, as established by the California Education Code, for at least one year immediately prior to the Residence Determination Date for the minor to qualify for California residency. Supporting documentation must be submitted.
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I am 19 years old, or older. How do I qualify for California residency?
Applicants 19 years of age or older by the Residence Determination Date are considered adults for residency purposes. To be eligible for resident status, adult students must:
Be a US Citizen or be granted and maintain an allowable immigration status for one year prior to the Residence Determination Date
Maintain a physical presence in California
Show intent to make California his or her permanent home
Evidence of intent (supporting documentation) to make California one’s permanent home may include, but is not limited to:
California driver’s license or ID Card
California automobile registration
California voter registration
California State income taxes
Rental lease agreement or property tax statement
Active savings and/or checking accounts in a California bank
Licensing from California for professional practice
Membership in a California professional organization
Maintaining a permanent military address and home of record in California
Military leave and earning statements showing California as legal residence
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Coming to CA for the sole purpose of a college education will not establish residency.
St. Mary’s of CA. It’s not close to LA (LA sucks anyways I dunno why you want to go there), but it’s in CA, it’s near the bay area, and it’s more likely to give you aid.
drive by Saint Marys almost every day, but no more. Yes it is IN the Bay Area(Moraga), but its very rural like. Buses to the Bart and then SF may take 1.5 hours, including the waiting.
You should also look into Mills in Oakland and SFU in SF.
OOS is too expensive. You need to look at some possibly affordable IS options like Wright State which has Wright-Patt AFB nearby with internship options.
I also have to wonder why you’re attending a CC with that GPA. Are you really beyond your HS teachable subjects?
For Engineering it doesn’t matter that much where you go, as long as the program is ABET accredited. Any of the public universities in Ohio should be plenty good. U. of Cincinnati always had a good reputation for engineering.
Then you can come out to California after you get your degree,.
You need to look at it this way…you’d be a transfer at OHU…as a junior and senior the class sizes will not be huge. It’s just two years…suck it up and go to OHU
This is completely inaccurate. ^^^^^
Where are you getting your misinformation? In addition to what @Gumbymom has posted above: the OP would have to work for two years without going to school. That’s not the hard part; the hard part is working and paying rent and taxes.
The student would have to find a job and then pay market rental rates without help from anyone.
That means he would have to:
find a job-not easy, given California’s competitive unskilled job seekers
not accept a reduced rental rate, (pay $1500-$2k per month)
not accept income help from anyone
have proof of paying state income taxes that match income on the W2; California taxes are high.
With an OOS transcript, the adcoms would scrutinize an OOS transcript and more than likely assume that the student was trying to get instate advantage. California has one of the toughest residency requirements because so many students try to get around being a non-resident.
Plus, this student’s stats are not competitive for the CS major at SDSU.
I would not call St Mary’s “rural like” lol. It’s true, it’s a bit out of the way in terms of public transportation. But it’s not too far from a bart station and you can go into berkeley/oakland to do stuff as well or walnut creek. You don’t have to go all the way to the city.
Look at Santa Clara University… good merit $$ available there. Frankly, I’d spend 2 years at CC and get amazing grades, then look to your dream school for the last 2 years.
The good news is that Ohio has a great number of schools that offer engineering that are reasonably priced and that you could get both scholarships and financial at assuming you are eligible. The bad news is that OSU and Miami are probably both reaches for you. You would be in the lower part of the bottom 50% at both schools and engineering is typically more selective than the schools as a whole.
What are you looking for in a college other than it being in CA? You can’t replicate the ocean, the mountains or the climate by the coast but there are a variety of schools with very different feels. Ohio University offers a rather Berkeley vibe, being kind of laid back and liberal. U of Cincinnati and the U of Toledo both offer mandatory coop programs that could help you finance your education. Ohio Northern is a smaller private that offers ME and Civil E programs. U of Akron is known for Chemical Engineering. Cleveland State and UC are very urban. Wright State and U of Toledo more suburban.
I can think of any number of reasons your California dream could become a nightmare. Just getting there and back would be expensive. You might find the culture quite a bit different from what you think it is. If your goal is getting a degree in engineering I don’t think there is a much better place to be in state for someone with your stats.
I completely disagree with osu and miami being reach schools, i am within the middle 50% of admitted students for both act and gpa. Plus, with them accepting 65% and 50% of students and miami and osu respectively, that is the definition of target schools imo. My cc gpa is also higher than the average transfer at osu, could not find miami’s transfer stats.
Go ahead and apply to both. Your ACT is about average for the schools (though not necessarily for the engineering colleges) your GPA is low for both. If your UW GPA was stronger then I’d call each of them a match. With your GPA where it is I still call it a reach. Don’t let my opinion sway you from applying. I would suggest having safer options.
You need to look at the ACT/SAT/GPA for the engineering admits, it is on the website.
“The middle 50% of directly enrolled students for autumn 2016 had an ACT score range of 29-33 and 98% were in the top 25% of their high school classes”
You ACT isn’t exactly outshining your GPA issue, that is why you should make sure you have some safer options.
Getting residence in CA as a student is virtually impossible. Don’t even consider it. Nearly all of the schools recommended don’t have engineering. You absolutely do not want a school that doesn’t have ABET engineering if there ANY inkling that you might want to be an engineer. Santa Clara does have engineering, but their aid is sorely lacking. LMU isn’t worth attending for engineering OOS. You’ll vastly overpay for what you get. Unfortunately, there isn’t a worthwhile CA engineering school that you will find affordable. If it were me, I’d choose Miami Ohio.