<p>Please do not lie, ever, on a residency issue. It is very, very easy to figure out where a person has been living – particularly when you are a person whose job it is to search out the liars (believe me, thousands of dollars are at stake, so the University has folks who scour the lists for the liars).</p>
<p>For starters, if I were running a University billing office, I would have the computer give me a file of all students whose high school transcripts were from schools outside of Michigan (easy to do by zip code). I would also have the computer build a file of students who did not provide a MI drivers license number (not everyone has a driver’s license, but most teens do). Thirdly, I’d have a contact over at the state driver’s license bureau and we’d have a cross file check of all incoming students with driver’s licenses and the state would cheerfully tell me if any of the drivers’ licenses had been issued within the last 12 months. </p>
<p>These lists would be the place to BEGIN the search for the liars. There’s lots of other search criteria (for instance, the first three digits of your SSN indicate your state of birth and I might be interested in all students born outside of MI). </p>
<p>There would be kids on the various lists who would be valid MI residents. As I researched through the list, those kids would never even know they had been scrutinized. But some of the kids would be . . . easy to Google and find out that they had won a scholarship or been on a sports team or had a Facebook page that I could easily check for more data. </p>
<p>In three days of work, I could probably zero in on the handful of students who were lying about their residency status. The University could a) bill them for nonresidency status or b) boot them from campus on an honor violation. </p>
<p>So, don’t dink around. Don’t kid yourself. REad the rules on the MI website and live by them. Don’t engage in wishful thinking. </p>
<p>You may need to move to MI and live there a year before you enroll in college. Good luck.</p>