<p>Hi, i am a resident of new hampshire who was recently admitted to UMCP, i have family in maryland and i am wondering if there is some way for me to qualify for in-state tuition there?</p>
<p>No, you have to prove that you’ve lived here for 12 months. The way you can prove that is by having a driver’s liscence, attending school here, or other ways (not quite sure of them all).<br>
And don’t try to cheat the system. Md residents are the ones paying taxes and that is why we get a reduction in tuition. Its not fair for out of state resisdents to think that they should be entitiled to instate tuition.</p>
<p>Your residency is determined by the residence of your parents, not any other relative. If your parents live in New Hampshire, you’re an out of state student at Maryland.</p>
<p>From the residency requirements page:</p>
<p>"To qualify for in-state tuition, a student must demonstrate that, for at least twelve (12)consecutive months immediately prior to and including the last date available to register for courses in the semester/term for which the student seeks in-state tuition status, the student had the continuous intent to:</p>
<ol>
<li>Make Maryland his or her permanent home; and </li>
<li>Abandon his or her former home state; and</li>
<li>Reside in Maryland indefinitely; and</li>
<li>Reside in Maryland primarily for a purpose other than that of attending an educational institution in Maryland."</li>
</ol>
<p>Doesn’t seem like you qualify, unfortunately.</p>
<p>So say I went to UMCP for a year, got a drivers license, declared residency with my aunt, changed all my addresses there, got a job and filed Maryland tax returns…would i qualify?</p>
<p>bumping this thread</p>
<p>Not unless your Aunt is going to take guardianship of you and claim you as her dependent, and you are not planning to go home for holidays, weekends, summers, etc. for at least 12 months and then it is still iffy.</p>
<p>See #4 in the list posted by umcp11. If you’re in MD to go to school, you’re not going to be able to establish residency. Nor should you be able to. As others have said in this thread, tuition is lower for in-state residents because their parents have been paying income taxes in this state. I have a daughter paying OOS state tuition in another state, and her aunt lives in the town where she’s going to school. But we have to pay OOS tuition because we are not residents of that state.</p>
<p>You would be seen by UMD officials as the person who moved to Maryland specifically to gain in-state tuition, which the UMD website explicitly says is not allowed. You are also a dependent of your Parent until 23, which cannot be changed.</p>
<p>the only way to quality for in-state tuition would be if your relative adopted you or if your parents gave up their rights and your relative became your legal guardian. on top of that, you would have to live in maryland for a year while not attending the university of maryland and then re-apply. that would prove that you are not attending “with the purpose of attending an educational institution.” there are not very many loopholes, and as others have said, I really don’t believe there should be. residents in maryland have been paying taxes for years to support this university.</p>