<p>If you have good enough financial reasons as to why you think you should get in-state tuition, what are the odds of them agreeing with you? I read that in 2010, 9 out of 10 students who applied for in-state tuition that were out-of-state students got it. So what's it take??</p>
<p>Interesting…they seem to be very stingy with their money, so I wouldn’t count on it.</p>
<p>9 out of 10? Really? Where did you hear that? I went to a CU financial aid night and it was made pretty clear that it is very, very hard to establish residency as an out of state student.</p>
<p>If you hear anything else on this please post it. my son (california) was just accepted and I don’t think we can afford the out of state tuition for four years</p>
<p>Google “Instate Angels”. I haven’t had any personal experience with this company, have just heard about it.</p>
<p>I wonder if that statistic is centered on graduate student applications. CU strongly encourages grad students to take all the appropriate steps to become Colorado residents in their first year of graduate school, and then to apply at just the right time before their second year of grad school for Colorado residency. It is in the university’s best interest that these students are awarded resident status because the same scholarship and grant amounts can go much further for in-state students than OOS students – and, similarly, much smaller awards can pay for just as much. So, from personal experience, I can tell you that grad students are encouraged and/or required to apply for residency at the end of their first year. And, I do believe that most of them are granted that status.
But they’re independents, not dependents, which makes a huge difference. </p>