<p>I am a part of the class of 2014. If my family moves to Michigan and settles there, when will I be able to pay the tuition for in-state residents? Is it my sophmore year?</p>
<p>You should as Michigan directly.</p>
<p>If we decided to move there, should I ask UMich to recalculate my aid?</p>
<p>blademaster, I am not qualified to answer your questions. You should sit down with your parents and come up with a range of questions to ask regarding residency and financial aid.</p>
<p>Please keep in mind that the University of Michigan has some very strict rules regarding residency, so do not expect too much going in.</p>
<p>Seriously, call the admissions office about this. Michigan’s residency requirements are not constant and incredibly difficult to predict, and I’ve honestly never heard of a student gaining residency over the course of their undergraduate career. Call the admissions office–this is too serious of a question to leave to the speculation of these chat rooms.</p>
<p>Ditto, plus emphasis. By way of example, my son and I are permanent legal residents who’ve lived in Michigan since 2003, own a company and home here, and do not own anything anywhere else. Nonetheless we had to PROVE we’d cut all ties to our homeland and submit numerous exhibits of taxes paid, residence ownership, employment history etc.</p>
<p>The best chance you would have would be if you could prove that your family HAS to move to Michigan for work, and made the decision prior to your enrollment at UMich. However, even then, I am not sure you’d qualify. I also don’t believe you’d qualify if the university suspects your family is moving to Michigan to achieve in-state residence to afford attendance. Other schools have a “one year” rule – Michigan does not.</p>
<p>Also, I suspect the residency office will not put its advice in writing until such time as you ARE a resident and are wanting to change to in-state tuition (although I would ASK for any advice in writing). So be very careful about assuming anything. Eg. do not make a decision to move as a family based on the expectation or do not accept attendance at the school assuming future in-state rates.</p>
<p>PS - To give you an example, there was a story in the Detroit Free Press a few years ago about a couple who attended UMich OOS as undergrad students. They married, lived and worked in Michigan for a number of years, and I believe had children. The wife wanted to go back to school to finish a post-grad degree and was classed as Out of State for tuition purposes, despite having lived and worked in MI after school. They fought it, but I don’t know that they won.</p>
<p>Just another anecdote…</p>
<p>D attended an out of state private school for her undergraduate degree. She came back to Michigan for graduate school. W and I have lived exclusively in Michigan for more than 30 years.</p>
<p>D and W and I had to provide extensive documentation to prove my D’s instate status, included repeated requests for additional information.</p>
<p>Point of story? It ain’t going to be easy…</p>