Residency for Cal Grant and UCLA

Parents Forum
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<p>My granddaughter is currently attending a private college in New York. She wants to come back to California and plans to apply to transfer to UCLA (she was accepted for this year but decided to go out of state). She has been a resident of California for all but 3 months of her life and in legal guardianship until she turned 18 (so has independent student status). She has a California driver's license, votes in California, and has a checking/savings account in California. My husband and I are both residents of California and have been all of our lives.</p>

<p>Since she graduated from a high school in California and will have only been out of the state to attend college for the 2014-2015 academic year will be be eligible for Resident tuition at UCLA and Cal Grant?</p>

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<p>Direct her to the bursar’s webpage or “tuition and fees” page of each school and read the requirements. Even colleges within the same state have varying rules. </p>

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<p>Resident tuition, yes,. Dunno about Cal Grant.</p>

<p>Note however, that UCLA and Cal generally do not accept Soph transfers. (In the old days, they would accept a Soph transfer if that student had been previously admitted as a Frosh – as your grandD has – but dunno if that is still current policy.)</p>