Good morning,
I am trying to get information about sending a letter to a prospective out of state college to request in state tuition. My son is moving to North Carolina this fall 2018. We will be following at a later time. Hw wants to go to CPPC Levine Campus in Matthews’. Is there a letter template that we can use?
Good luck. You need to contact the CC he will be attending. There should be a process for gaining instate residency.
Keep on mind…this varies by school in NC…when my kid was there…as a grad student…he could,have gotten instate residency at HIS college but he needed to change everything to NC…voter registration, drivers license, health insurance, and he needed an address that was not a dorm.
The school should be able to tell you how to apply for change in residency status.
Here is an FAQ about the North Carolina rules, which now apply equally to all public institutions of higher education. The FAQ is also lodged in the site you would have to go to to get a residency determination.
https://ncresidency.cfnc.org/residencyInfo/studentFAQ
Summary: Not terribly surprisingly, it doesn’t look good, although the OP’s post leaves a lot of questions dangling. In general, the son would have to be a North Carolina resident for a full 365 days before enrolling at a community college in order to have residency status. As with almost every state, it is very difficult for someone who is 17 or 18 to establish a different residency from his or her parents (although if one parent is an NC resident, that may be OK). If a parent is moving to NC for employment there, there is some limited discretion for the college to waive the 12-month rule, but it’s strictly capped. A college can only give a handful of waivers.
It’s not clear from what I read, but in many states once a student starts college as a non-resident, he or she cannot ever establish residency for tuition purposes unless the parents have established residency for over a year or the student has a substantial break in his or her education (~2 years) during which residency is maintained in-state.