<p>Just wondering if anyone has ever heard of a parent moving to the state their child is attending college in in order to get instate tuition</p>
<p>Each public colleges’ website plainly lays out in-state tuition requirements. A last minute shortcut usually doesn’t pass scrutiny.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’ll ever pass for in-state. Colleges account for “smart” people like that, and make sure you can’t get in-state tuition by just moving the same year your kid starts college. Some colleges require you to be a resident for several years, others have different means of ensuring that you’re not just doing it for cheaper tuition. So no, I don’t think that’ll ever work. There could be exceptions, though.</p>
<p>In VA, which has such great schools I imagine you’re thinking of, the requirement is one year before enrollment:</p>
<p>[LIS</a> > Code of Virginia > 23-7.4](<a href=“Legislative Information System”>Legislative Information System)</p>
<p>I’m wondering if a child of divorce can attend school in the non custodial parent’s state as a resident? Just a trivia question for me. I don’t have that situation but a friend of my sons does.</p>
<p>“I’m wondering if a child of divorce can attend school in the non custodial parent’s state as a resident?”</p>
<p>Sometimes yes. That is an easy enough thing for the student and the parents to investigate.</p>
<p>Each school has their rules but if you can demonstrate a job transfer and home purchase or long term lease they are more cooperative generally on the in state classification, but it does vary by school.</p>
<p>The school I’m looking at requires you be a resident for at least a year. So if my dad moved during my freshman year would sophomore year tuition work? By the way, this isn’t my grand plan, it’s his.</p>
<p>Check the college website. I think you need to demonstrate residence w/o attending the college for 1 year. If so, not helpful for you, I would think.</p>
<p>It doesn’t say so on the website.</p>
<p>The only way to get an answer you can depend on, Isky, is to ask the financial aid office–or whoever makes residency determinations–at the college or university in question.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks.</p>
<p>Back in the Stone Age, I had a roommate who was classified as OOS as a freshman. Even after his parent moved to the state after his freshman year, and they literally owned half the business district of a largish small town (county seat) in the state, they never could get him classified as in-state. So depending on the rules of the state, or the bureaucracy of the college, what you are classified as when you first arrive may be what you stay classified as all the way through. (It can work the other way too, as I’ve heard of kids whose parents moved OOS, but they retained in-state status.)</p>
<p>YMMV.</p>
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<p>My sister and brother-in-law moved to AZ so their kid could attend U of A in-state. But they did it while he was a jr. in HS. My b-in-law at the time had a sales job with a territory that covered the southwestern states and it didn’t really matter where he lived.</p>