<p>Alright so my parent's have been separated (can't say divorced because they were never married) since I was like 2. I live with my mother during the weeks in a suburban town in Massachusetts. On the weekends I live with my dad in a small city in New Hampshire. I attend a school near my mother's house. Since New Hampshire is an underrepresented state at the top schools (especially when compared to Massachusetts), could I possibly put my residence as my father's house? Would that help at all? Or would it not work?</p>
<p>get them both under one roof, and then choose that state.</p>
<p>Go with Mass because I’m from NH
and if you take the one spot at my school offered to a NH student I will cut you</p>
<p>…The only reason I can think of to falsify your address [which is kind of what you’re proposing doing, even though it’s not technically wrong] is if you needed in-state tuition. I just can’t see it as making that much of a difference.</p>
<p>lmao i look forward to being cut lol. Any other opinions?</p>
<p>Won’t know they what state your school is in? Wouldn’t they be the least suspicious?</p>
<p>Haha very good point light. I did think of that, but can they refute it?</p>
<p>I think that the state that you attend school in is where the colleges will assume you actually live, even if you put the other state down. I mean, I guess the only way “to actually know” is to straight-up ask you in an interview, or they might automatically reject you for lying what your main residence is (hope that this doesn’t happen! 
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<p>Would they actually think that you crossed state lines just to go to high school, especially if it’s a public school it seems extra fishy. I wish you the best of luck when you apply to those top schools! :)</p>
<p>agree with big dreamer
It depend on where you attend public school, and how well you did in your school.
It’s better to change your school address to NH, haha</p>
<p>From what you’ve described, your mother has primary custody, so you live in her town.</p>
<p>a) I go to private school, not public.
b) My mother and father have joint custody, but I do live with my mother during the week because it is closer to my school.</p>
<p>If you went to public school, you would have no chance - but as you are going to private school, I don’t think anyone will blink if you were to say you are from NH because that feels like home to you. </p>
<p>But be prepared to be cut deep - verylikeawhale doesn’t mess.</p>
<p>Hahahaha. I think there’s room enough in college for the both of us. And this was hypothetical, I do not know what I will do.</p>
<p>You would claim yourself as either MA or NH resident because of “private school” and “joint custody”. but this may not help you a lot to be admitted by colleges.
colleges only pay attention to “your school”, and how well you did in your school. not your home location.
If you apply for state public college, in/out state tuition is not the same. you can choose from MA or NH, good luck.</p>