In state or out of state tuition for 24 year old

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Los Angeles
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I’m hoping to get some clarification here on the financial independence condition for ucla.

I’m currently in Texas with my parents and am 22 years old. I was going to school but had to leave for medical reasons, so I’m basically starting over. I want to go into mechanical engineering and would like to go to ucla.

I plan on moving to LA, attend a community college for 2 years and then transfer to ucla. By the time I apply as a transfer, I will be 24.

I’ve been reading up on the UC policies for in-state tuition, and I understand 2 out of the 3. I will be physically present for more than a year and I will start to prove my intent to permanently remain in the state when I move.

Now under the financial independence condition, there is a list of exemptions and being 24 or older qualifies you for an exemption. But I do not know what that really means. Are there more restrictions to the age exemption? Would this allow me in-state tuition for the last two years at ucla?There doesn’t seem to be a lot of information about what being 24 or older means or implies.

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If you move here and attend a CC as an OOS student, then apply to transfer to UCLA, you’ll pay OOS there too.

You have to come here independently and for a reason other than school - that’s best evidenced by a job, apartment,voting, etc. for a full year before beginning school college anywhere. 24 is one of the criteria for ‘independent’.

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I was intending on moving to California independently and making it my permanent home, but I didn’t know that you had to pay in-state tuition from the first year of a 4-year education to keep paying it all 4 years. Thank you for the quick response.