<p>I need all the help I can get trying to convince my parents that UCLA is worth the money. Since September I've been actively applying for various scholarships from a variety of organizatiobns. But as students, is it hard to pay for UCLA? </p>
<p>Also-- when I went to visit it seemed like EVERYONE was from California and they all went home on the weekends. Is this true? </p>
<p>Any observations from an out of state perspective would be greatly appreciated :)</p>
<p>I don't know about your 1st question, but I highly doubt that everyone goes home on the weekends. California is huge...a large portion of people won't be anywhere close to home, like me. Plus, there's so much to do in UCLA that you won't need to go home to have fun.</p>
<p>I live in CA and I won't be going home on the weekends - it'd be a 6hr drive for me... but UCLA is expensive or someone out-of-state. Maybe you should consider your own state's public education system because it might be a better value?</p>
<p>carebear98: well, you can always hang out with me...i probably won't be going home on weekends. :D</p>
<p>A lot of people who go to UCLA are from northern California, and they can't just go home without flying. As for the people who live in SoCal, a lot of them don't go home every weekend. I am a 1.5 hr drive away on the weekend (3 hr drive on weekday) to UCLA, and I will probably go home once in three weeks? more or less, but certainly not every weekend. I think most people sort of do the same. So, there will definitely always be people around.</p>
<p>haha thanks saxshackdan. i look forward to it ;)</p>
<p>haha locknload. It's also a 6 hours drive for me.
Join some IM sports or club sports to keep ur self occupy (and in shape :) )</p>
<p>Props to the other NorCal Bruins!</p>
<p>I think I might join IM sports myself.</p>
<p>I'm an out-of-state student, but my parents have no problem paying for my full tuition (first year). My parents are probably going to gain state residency though after my first year and that will obviously help a lot =P. </p>
<p>Also, I don't know if it's true or not, but during one of the open house tours, one of the students said it was "easy" to gain state residency for out-of-state students. I don't know how or what you need to do, but maybe some other students can support this claim?</p>
<p>MadeInChina: it is not easy to gain state residency. Besidse for normal things (registering to vote, getting a drivers license) you have to be 100% financially independent from your parents.</p>
<p>I'm pretty sure you just need to prove that you're not in CA solely for educational purposes. I lived in Irvine until I was 16 and then moved to WA; when I was accepted to LA they said I could get in-state residency without difficulty.</p>
<p>Who are "they"?</p>
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<p>Yeah, I was told something similar to this..the "solely for educational purposes" part.</p>
<p>doesnt matter if u have residency in california, still doesnt mean u get in-state tuition.</p>
<p>The fact remains, regardless of what occurs, you must abide by the rules stated in the registrar's office.</p>
<p>myk, isn't the whole point of obtaining residency to pay in-state tuition..?</p>
<p>emme, I emailed LA's residence classification office.</p>
<p>and i thought that being "financially independent" isn't a big deal; doesn't it just mean that your parents can't claim you as a dependent when they file their taxes?</p>
<p>well what i basically mean is that you HAVE to be financially independent for 2 years and even if you have state residency, you cant get in-state tuition until you have had those 2 years of being financial independent.</p>
<p>I wish this weren't the case, because I am planning on going to UCLA and unfortunately, i'm out of state. But I still believe it will be too difficult to be financially independent for two years, simply because your parents cant give you ANY money during those two years and you have to find a mediary or something like that.</p>