<p>I posted this on the Parent Forum. Post this here too for we'd like to better our son's college admission to Rice and UT-Austin. Thanks!</p>
<p>Hi, need your help and advice!
I will be relocating to Texas this summer from Massachusetts. While scouting the area, we brought our son (high school Junior) with us to look at Rice and UT-Austin. He fell in love with both colleges, and they are now #1 and #2 on his list. However, I am not sure we should move him to Texas for his Senior year. Tentative plan is to let him finish his high school in Massachusetts and let my husband stay behind to be with him. Right after hes done with high school, they will move to Texas permanently too. I will also be able to be spend a lot of time at MA even after the relocation, if I want to.
I want to maximize my sons chances to be accepted by Rice and UT-Austin. He might Early Decision Rice (as out-of-state? Or in-state?). And for UT-Austin, can he be considered in-state?
IF you are familiar with the Texan schools and their admission, please advise! We are willing to pay the higher tuition with Rice, but of course would like to pay in-state tuition with UT-Austin. If only I move to Texas for now, can my son still apply as in-state student?
Also, please share pros and cons of my sons moving to Texas now (whole family will move together) or I move, he and my husband stay in MA to finish Senior year, from the college admission point of view. THANKS.</p>
<p>You should call the UT admissions office and ask about the in-state/out-of-state business in this case. Sometimes students with parents in two different states qualify for in-state status in both states. But the only way to know the Texas policy is to ask.</p>
<p>Texas has guaranteed admission to the public universities for students who have certain class ranking, and separate admissions for the rest. Only the school district that your son would attend would be able to tell you whether or not his MA GPA would be used in that calculation, so call them too.</p>
<p>Lastly, you should find out if he would be allowed to retain his in-state status in MA should he apply and enroll as an in-state student. Some states allow this, others convert students to OOS status as soon as their family moves out of the state.</p>
<p>Thanks! He does not want to get to the MA public schools. So it’s ok for us to not be considered in-state for MA.</p>
<p>Rice desires geographic diversity, and gets many applicants from Texas. Therefore it is desirable to be an out of state applicant for Rice.</p>
<p>UT in-state requires you to produce a transcript from one of the instate high schools with school rank in top 8%. Someone posted earlier that they were moving from Oklahoma for the senior year and one of the responders said that when they move, the local school would translate all of the grades from the previous school to the current school and provide a rank.</p>
<p>Rice has no instate vs out of state.</p>
<p>If you are working in texas for next year, you should talk to UT to see if he can be admitted as out of state but get in state tuition since you have contributed to the texas economy.</p>