<p>I recently got a letter from U of M informing me that i'm an out of state student! I just completed the residency application, but i was wondering: how likely is it that they'll change my status to an instate student? I was born in Yemen; came here when I was three. I studied in Yemen first semester of my freshmen year. Other than that, I've lived in Coldwater, Michigan all of my life. Has this happened to anyone else?
thanks!</p>
<p>You should let your High School guidance counsellor know about this. Have her call UM right away. Also, you should follow up with phone-calls, and not sit back and wait....</p>
<p>Yes, it happened to me.</p>
<p>And sorry to say that it's extremely difficult to solve. It can be done, but you're going to have to make a lot of phone calls.</p>
<p>Basically, this residency office is going to demand so much information from you that my guess is half the people who filled in the app just give up. At one point I was submitting receipts from credit cards to prove my mom's presence in the state between 1.5 and 1.8 years ago. Yeah, that's how it works.</p>
<p>All I can say is don't give up, and it you can work it out eventually.</p>
<p>definitely stick with it. do w/e you can to secure instate status. be persistent; the last thing you want to have to do is pay an additional $20,000.</p>
<p>It's been more than three weeks since I've sent in the residency application. I've yet to hear anything from them. I'm getting really nervous...does anyone know whats going on? My guidance counselor is clueless.</p>
<p>You have to continuously call the residency office and ask for updates.</p>
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<p>I think they normally take a bit longer. Alexandre is right - call them. As much as you need to.</p>