Hi! So I am a highschool junior currently in California. I lived in Texas in 3rd-8th grade and our family plans to move back within 1-2 years. I would love to go to a Texas school, and heard I have better chances in-state, so is there any way to establish residency for applications before? IE- can we buy a house/rent an apartment and say in apps that we are residents?
Thanks for any help!
Well if you are comfortable with lying and getting arrested for fraud you can do that.
If your high school diploma will be from a CA high school it will be difficult to convince TX colleges that you’re a TX resident.
If you apply with a high school diploma from another state, it is going to cause some questions on residency. Not that it can’t happen that a resident has a diploma from another state (boarding school, parents in two different states, a kid with a job in another state like an actor or musician) but they will look at the application very carefully to make sure you really are a Texas resident and that at least one of the parents is a resident of Texas.
Make sure you know what your options are as a California resident and paying OOS at Texas.
Google “UTexas residency requirements”
Thanks for all the help guys- I think I’m better off applying OOS and just mentioning plans to move to Austin/used to live here.
@abhi777 Your parents will need to move here and work for 12 months before you can claim residency. Coming here as a student to go to school, from another state, doesn’t make you a resident.
Google the requirements of being considered in state. If it is just you moving here, there are conditions of you setting up your own domicile, working, and not being claimed on your parents taxes. States don’t want to pay for out of state students to attend school so states are strict about what qualifies for in state.