Qualify for instate tuition for UF???

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<p>my dream school is UF but I dont want to pay the outstate tuition and pay the instate</p>

<p>What that means is, your strategy to pay instate is:</p>

<p>June: move to Tampa, live with Grandma, claim that as your current address, get a drivers license, register to vote, etc. Enroll in community college (paying out of state tuition for that).</p>

<p>January-ish: Apply to UF. Claim in-state status.</p>

<p>April (or whenever): when my family back home claims their dependents, they CANNOT claim me. </p>

<h2>August: Attend my first classes at UF, hopefully by now paying in-state.</h2>

<p>this is what florida residency sheet says:</p>

<p>-I am an independent person and have maintained legal residence in Florida for at least the past 12 consecutive months.</p>

<p>-be a dependent person and my parentt or legal guardian has maintained residence in florida for at least 12 months.</p>

<p>-be a dependent person who has resdied for five years with an adult relative other than my parent or legal guardian and my relative has maintained legal residence in florida for at least the past 12 consecutive months</p>

<p>Independent: a person who is at least 24 years old, married, a graduate or professional student, a veteran, a member of the armed forces, an orphan, a ward of the court, or someone with legal dependents other than a spouse, per the U.S Department of Education for the purposes of federal aid eligilbility. There may be limited cases where a person under the age of 24 years old may qualify as an independent student. Such students will be required to verify independence.</p>

<p>Is there any way I can do this? im 21 years old, living with my grandma for 5 years is crazy long, and my parents live in NY???</p>

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<p>i don’t think you can claim independence. i would look further into that, because if you cant, which i believe you have to show hardship in order to do, then you’re sol.</p>

<p>though, i would think there would be no way around it. the whole point of OOS tuition is to charge people from out of state more money, and having loopholes that anyone could go through kind of defeats the purpose. i’m glad you’re so excited to be part of the gator nation, but you might have to do it as an out of state student :(</p>

<p>of course, i don’t know for sure. i’ve never heard OOS friends talk about specific loopholes though.</p>

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<p>No. You’re not 24 years old so you’re not independent. Your parents would have to move to Florida and live there for at least 12 months. </p>

<p>I have paid taxes in Florida for 59 years so that my children and other residents of my state can attend Florida universities at a lower cost. I didn’t pay them to subsidize residents of other states who want to go to school here but who don’t help to support the university system with their tax money. Sorry, but if you want to pay in-state rates, you will have to follow the rules like everyone else.</p>

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<p>I agree with patsmom! Yeah, and how about all the Florida college students follow your plan, move to New York for the summer, go to a CUNY as OOS and then apply to a SUNY as a resident. This plan won’t fly in New York and it won’t fly in Florida. Residency is much more than living someplace.</p>

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<p>yeah you right i guess ill jus have to go to cuny baruch college in manahattan instead…i don’t want to take the risk in going to a community college paying out of state for a year and then finding out I can’t be qualified. I don’t get it though my friends were able to become florida residents and there 19 and was able to qualify, oh well…</p>

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<p>We have lived in Fl since my son was 4 and my daughter 2. He just received a letter from UF admissions questioning his instate residency for law school. S has always lived here, graduating from a Fl HS and attending UCF all 4 years of undergrad. He is 22 years old and has lived 2 yrs on campus in a dorm and 2 yrs off campus in an apt. You would not believe the crazy hoops and documentation we are collecting to prove his residency. Apparently, at issue is DH did not declare him this past yr on taxes, I guess. Trouble is they want when drivers license issued: less than 1yr cause Fl requires new one at 21. Apt lease less than 1yr, registration of car in dad’s name, etc. You get the picture. Thank goodness he has had a voter’s registration card since 18. Lol. I had the admissions lady laughing when I was trying to figure out documentation to prove my Fl kid is a resident. So, long story short … It’s not easy. </p>

<p>Zebes</p>

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<p>Generally the presumtion is that you are a resident of where your parents live. You cannot establish “relative” residency via living with grandma for only a year. Your only route is to establish you are an independent and live in Fl for a year. That is not easy to do while living with grandma. You would need to show that during that year you are in fact supporting yourself and not receiving any support from parents or grandma (in other words, you better be paying her rent, supplying your own food, and working). Note that your parents not claiming you on tax forms does not even begin to establish your independence from them; you must show that they in fact don’t send you any money for support.</p>

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Short answer: no.</p>

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<p>Your grandma would have to be a legal guardian and you would have to have guardianship papers to prove it or she would have to have filed you on her taxes for 5 consecutive years. To be considered independent you have to prove that you have supported yourself for more than half the year (age doesn’t affect independent status). Since both of my parents, I had to send UF guardianship papers from Miami-Dade county, my family taxes, driver license, voters registration card, & residency affidavit. It’s not an easy process and they are trying to weed out people who are claiming residency for tuition purposes. @Carlosha99 what you’re doing is immoral and you will condemned for it.</p>

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<p>^^^ I find Carlosha’s blaring grammatical and spelling errors even more immoral…</p>

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<p>I know I see people are highly sensitive on here saying its wrong, im sorry I brought it up. I just find it rediculous that outstate tuition is 5 times more than instate (4 gran to 24 gran) and over here in new york taxes are higher compared to over there in florida, its a joke…just my opinon though</p>

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<p>CARLOSHA99,</p>

<p>Some states will allow you to establish residency on your own. However, you would need to move to that state, get a job, get a place to live, and live independently of your parents for twelve months. You would need to provide formal documentation that you were self-supporting during that time. I do not know if it would be possible in Florida. You would have to read through the university’s specific policy. That should be posted right on the university’s website.</p>

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<p>carolos, don’t let these people get you down. do more research, talk with your friends, and see what you can do. i honestly don’t buy that price discrimination based on residency isn’t a violation of the equal protection clause. trying to go to the school you want to go to without paying a discriminatory price isn’t really immoral.</p>

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I hope you never go to law school.</p>

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<p>No, it’s not a joke at all.</p>

<p>I’m sorry you’ve been dreaming of UF for years and now find it unaffordable, but you probably can’t go there unless you and your family come up with four years of out-of-state tuition. And this is actually fair. Your family has been paying taxes for years to support the public colleges and universities of New York State; you qualify for resident tuition *there *because your family has been supporting these schools all along. Residents of Florida have been paying their taxes to support public colleges and universities in Florida; that’s why Florida residents qualify for resident tuition at UF. </p>

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<p>Ditto, Erin’s Dad.</p>

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<p>again in new york we pay higher taxes than in florida…i think for us students, in-state tuition should be qualified for all states in the united state who are legal citizens paying that are paying taxes and out-state should be just the students outside of America…here in ny our outstate tuition for schools is only doubled the instate…not FIVE times the instate cost…its fine though I guess im just going to baruch college, ny is better for buisness than florida im thinking</p>

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<p>ahahaahah i just spelt business wrong again…great</p>

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<p>But you aren’t paying those taxes *to *the State of Florida, so why should you get reduced tuition *from *the State of Florida?</p>

<p>If you pay a lot of money for a lavish dinner in an expensive restaurant, should they have to give you a sandwich at Subway because you’ve paid so much somewhere else?</p>

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<p>@ Sikorsky- in that case the way you put it I guess i see your point…maybe im just annoyed about the fact that every state should have a good, equal ratio of instate and outstate. If a university is 4 gran for instate than outstate should be 10. I just don’t see the reason why they got times the tuition by 5. Maybe your reason is cause all the people from Florida want to go that college. But instead of doing that they should get all the applications of all the states and pick the best deserving students that really want to go. </p>

<p>For paying 25 gran with room and board not included, its nearly impossible to go to that school cause someone on here told me the most you can take out is 7,500 and thats if you have a cosigner.</p>

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It’s called “states’ rights.” Every state is sovereign, subject only to the power of the federal government on certain issues. Education, whether primary, secondary or post-high school, is not one of them. It is traditionally held to be a local issue. Same reason that a kid who lives in the Bronx can’t go to a public high school in Westchester.

That’s what private colleges do. Then it doesn’t matter where you live.</p>