I am considering attending University of Minnesota - Twin Cities some time in the future, but I am not a resident of the state. If I resided in Minnesota for two years but attended college in Wisconsin, right across the border [this is doable in several locations], got my bachelors degree and then attended UM Twin Cities…would those two years spent residing in Minnesota but NOT actually attending school there, be counted towards domicile and establishing residency? Or would I still have to spend at least another year not going to school while living in the state?
Live in one state, go to school in another - how does it affect residency considerations afterwards?
Where you reside determines state of residence for in-state tuition and fees. If you reside in MN, and commute to study in WI, you will still be a MN resident.
I hope so, but I don’t know. I mean, if I resided in Minnesota for, say, two years, got my bachelors degree in a Wisconsin school by commuting, then applied to grad school soon after in University of Minnesota…wouldn’t the UM admissions ignore my claim that I technically resided in Minnesota for two years without going to school? I DID go to school in such a case during those two years, just not in the state of Minnesota where I was living all that time. I hope it works, but it just sounds too good to be true.
You aren’t ‘technically’ a Minn resident, you are actually one. You live in MN, you vote in MN, you register your car in MN, you pay taxes in MN (even if you work in Wis, you pay non-resident in WI. If you went to school in New Mexico for those two years, you’d still be a Minn resident.
WI and MN happen to have tuition reciprocity, so this is not an unusual situation at all. I lived and worked in Minn for 5 years and had two co-workers who lived in Wisc and drove the 50 miles every day to the office. They were Wis residents for all purposes, their children were Wis residents, if they wanted to go to college in Minn they’d have to apply through the reciprocity agreement for the MN rate.
Ok that sounds good, but I’m still concerned about other issues. If I reside in Minnesota for two years but go to school in Wisconsin just over the border and then, after all that, apply to a Minnesota University at a later date…what about Minnesota colleges and their OTHER potential rules on Residency, such as: why weren’t you employed, preferrably employed full time, during those two years (which I probably won’t be if I was going to school full time)? Have you ‘cut all ties’ to other state/s you were residing in? You aren’t just here for tuition purposes, etc.?
BTW, I’m currently in Ohio and have lived here practically all my life.
Anyway, its all in the future and I’ve got time to plan it out but it just seems too easy and I can’t help but think those other details about Residency will trip me up in the end. Especially explaining why I wasn’t employed during those two years in Minnesota while going to school in Wisconsin. I hope I can find I way to make it all work though.
You are talking about two different thing, residency and residency for tuition purposes. First, if you are under 24, you can move to MN and register to vote and register your car and never have a job, but you’d still be a resident of MN. NOT, however, for tuition purposes. Tuition instate is determined in other ways, usually where your parents live until you are 24 or have an undergrad degree.
If you establish residency in MN, you’d need to check the rules for qualifying for instate tuition. Where do your parents live, how many of the MN requirements do you meet - DL, job, taxes, voter registration, etc.
Since you moved to MN for the express reason to attend school, I don’t believe that you will establish residency for tuition purposes.
Yeah but I also want to live there regardless of going to school or not.
That’s why you have to establish yourself as living there. Get a job, file taxes, register for a library card and to vote. By a resident fishing license. If you are 18 and your parent continue to live in Ohio, it probably won’t matter for undergrad. For graduate school, you’ll have to pull out the requirements and see which you’ll meet. Where you attended college won’t matter.
If I go through with this I will be doing everything except getting a job, since I plan to attend even in summer. But yes, I’d do all the rest that is expected of a resident. I do hope it would work though.
Why live in MN and go to school in Wis? This might work for Duluth/Superior, but even that involves travel. If you want to go to school in Wis, live in Wis. Go to grad school in Wis.
And students do work when they are in school, even in the summer.
I believe in the long run your scheme will not work because you aren’t living in Minn for the purpose of being a self supporting resident.
In your first post it sounded like you were a MN resident who wanted to go to school in WI and not lose MN residency for tuition purposes. Now you are trying to rent an apt in MN for no reason whatsoever.
I don’t think this will work. As soon as you start attending school, your residence will be fixed as a non resident. I don’t think it matters that you attend school in WI. Look here: https://admissions.tc.umn.edu/PDFs/ResidencyReciprocity.pdf
I guess I could have explained myself better, and I’m sorry if I sounded so confusing, so here’s my second try:
I do not currently live in Minnesota. I want to establish residency there, so that I can get in-state tuition AND because I want to live there for its own sake. I would hope to attend the University of Minnesota Twin Cities [UM for short], and I am primarily interested in Grad school at UM. But I do not want to move to Minnesota and wait a year or more WITHOUT attending school just so that I can establish residency, as is normally required to do so, as thats just too much time wasted for me. If I live in Minnesota, but go to school over the border in Wisconsin, to a Wisconsin school that is CLOSE [this can be done, there are Wisconsin colleges near the Minnesota border, notably around the Twin Cities area], and do so for a year or two’s worth of classes and credits to transfer, or maybe complete a degree, THEN apply soon after to UM for further education, will my time have counted as fulfilling the Residential / Domicile requirement of living in Minnesota and not attending school, since in such a case I would have been going to school in Wisconsin, and not in Minnesota?
Students from Other States. If a student from another state move to Minnesota and attends a post-secondary institution within the first calendar year before attending the University, that student shall be classified as a nonresident and will remain a nonresident throughout his or her presence as a student.
OK. You are worrying too far ahead if you haven’t even moved to MN yet.
What is it that you think now that you would be going to grad school in MN for anyway? What makes you so sure you would still want to study that and that you would get accepted four or five years from now?
And if you just want to live in MN but don’t care where you study, what about living in Moorehead and crossing the river to NDSU, or in East Grand Forks to study at UND? Those commutes would be waaay easier.