<p>Hi y'alls! I'm a current high school senior in California, and I've been a California resident for as long as I can remember. My family is planning on moving us all to Florida by the end of October! :| </p>
<p>So, I was wondering, how would this affect my residency status for when I apply to CSU's? Would I pay for out-of-state? What if I moved in with a California-resident family relative? </p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=68001-69000&file=68070-68085”>http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=edc&group=68001-69000&file=68070-68085</a> and <a href=“http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Registrar/minors.html”>http://registrar.berkeley.edu/Registrar/minors.html</a> and <a href=“http://registrar.ucsc.edu/catalog/appendixes/index.html#spec_rules”>http://registrar.ucsc.edu/catalog/appendixes/index.html#spec_rules</a> indicate that if you are a minor and stay in California and enroll in a California public college within a year of the parent’s departure, you can be classified as in-state.</p>
<p>However, it is very easy to lose California residency if you do not do everything as specified.</p>
<p>Gaining Florida residency has a year waiting period, according to <a href=“http://www.flbog.edu/forstudents/ati/resrequirements.php”>http://www.flbog.edu/forstudents/ati/resrequirements.php</a> . So if you do not do things as needed to retain California residency, you could be out-of-state for both California and Florida (and every other state), at least for your first year of college.</p>
<p>Hi ucbalumnus! Thanks so much for helping out. To clarify, to retain my title of an in-state, I must return back to California within a period of a year after moving, correct? Or is it based on the date that I come back to school? I don’t plan on going to Florida for school, I actually have other out-of-state universities in mind.</p>
<p>You have to stay in California when your parents move out of California and enroll in a California public college or university within a year of your parents’ move out of California.</p>
<p>I.e. if your parents move to Florida in October 2014, you must stay in California (presumably completing your high school in California) and then enroll in a California public college or university before October 2015 (i.e. no later than the fall 2015 semester or quarter).</p>
<p>Do your parents know the college cost implications of their move?</p>
<p>Yes they do, and I don’t think they really care, they won’t let me stay in California without them. I’m not even quite sure how much of an increase out-of-state fees would be if I were to move with them, but I’m planning on applying to other colleges that are out-of-state. I’m mainly worried about how I’ll be able to pay for college since I come from a lower-class background.</p>
<p>Unless you have high enough stats to pick up a big merit scholarship (see the lists linked in <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1678964-links-to-popular-threads-on-scholarships-and-lower-cost-colleges.html”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/financial-aid-scholarships/1678964-links-to-popular-threads-on-scholarships-and-lower-cost-colleges.html</a> , particularly the automatic and competitive full rides) or be admitted to a private school with good financial aid (most such schools are highly selective) or UVA or UNC-CH, you may not be able to afford to go to college immediately after high school if you are from a low income family without in-state residency in any state.</p>
<p>You can go to the web sites of California and Florida public universities and community colleges and search for the net price calculator for each college. Run them with approximate family financial numbers for both the in-state and out-of-state scenarios to see what you are looking at in terms of cost and financial aid.</p>
<p>@OhShizSharon, this is a really big deal. UCLA and UC Berkeley are both among the top-ranked universities in the world, and UCSD, UC Davis, and USCB are also very highly ranked. Top-ranked meaning within the top 12 on lists that include all 8 ivy league, Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial, CalTech, Stanford, ETH, and MIT, that’s 15 other top schools, 1/3 (or more) of which two UC’s beat out in the rankings! Not to mention the LACs or the seven sisters. Here is one such ranking: </p>
<p><a href=“World University Rankings 2014-15 | Times Higher Education (THE)”>http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/world-university-rankings/2014-15/world-ranking</a></p>
<p>In-state tuition is nice, but as an in-state applicant, you should also have an advantage in admissions (A higher percentage of out-of-state applicants are admitted, but their stats are uniformly higher). CalGrants are also an important piece for financial aid. Leaving the state could cost your parents A LOT. Is there any way they can delay for 7 months? Second best is to allow you to live with friends/relatives for some months and you can stay in-state. Unsure of the impact on financial aid, though. I know they already said ‘no’ to this, but they might reconsider?</p>
<p>You will have a tough time changing schools your senior year in terms of getting good teacher and counselor recommendations, because they simply have little time to get to know you.</p>
<p>You definitely want to be in-state somewhere.</p>