<p>Hello, </p>
<p>I have a certain situation and was wondering if anybody could answer it for me...</p>
<p>I am an older student (i.e. not tied to parents), and CA resident, but attended an out of state <em>private</em> school for 3 quarters. I never released my CA residency. </p>
<p>I am moving back to CA in June for personal reasons. It is a little too late for Fall admission so I will likely begin in Spring 2012.</p>
<p>Will I still be able to get CA residency, or will I release that? </p>
<p>Thanks...</p>
<p>My guess is that you still qualify for CA residency, but am not sure because they are very strict. You might want to also post your question on the UC Transfer subforum as people may be more familiar with CA regulations there. If you google CA university residency or something similar, you will get a hit with their rules.</p>
<p>As entomom said, difficult to say. In Texas for example, you have to live in the state for a year to declare residency for tuition purposes. I believe California is the same.</p>
<p>Yeah my job(s) takes me allover the country, I am an IT consultant and work as a 1099 or Freelance, I’ve been 5 different places in the last 3 years including outside the United States, I have to be a resident <em>somewhere</em> though right…Plus I voted there in last election as well and filed CA state income tax for 2010, had a car there, and will get one again out there again. I currently don’t own a car as I don’t need one at my current gig. My license is CA and permanent address is there (at families house) when I registered at out of state private for some classes. Of course I am an “odd” case but I am definitely not trying to “screw” the system, just want to finish my degree. I know CA is super quirky, hence why I was asking. But I have enough credits at this point where I should be able to just take 40 hours to fulfill the school residency requirements and get my degree. If it came down to it, I would ante up for the out of state tuition, isn’t really much of an issue, I just know as far as transfers go that they prefer local candidates over out of states for acceptance.</p>
<p>I would call the schools you are applying for and ask them directly considering the complexity of your situation.</p>