<p>I currently live in California and my dream college is the University of Oregon.
For me it is not financially feasible to attend as an out of state student, therefore I need to obtain residence status.
I was wondering if its possible to obtain residency by first gaining admission and deferring for a year and in that time getting an apartment/job? It would be much easier (read:less scary) for me to already be accepted before I move 500 miles away and sink a year of my life into this and then face the possibility of not being accepted, with only an Oregon residency to show for it.
If my previous deferral idea is impossible, have any of you heard of anything else that could help me out like a GAP (Guaranteed acceptance program) or anything of that nature to give me peace of mind. I have no problem attending a community college or really doing anything as long as it lands me in U of O.</p>
<p>You need to check on the residency requirements for the school but I doubt that would work. If you graduated from a California school, your parents still live there and claim you on taxes, etc. AND you defer I really doubt they will let you in.</p>
<p>When I went to college I was married, my husband had a job and we owned a house in the state, we were registered to vote etc in the state but since we had just moved there it still took 2 appeals and 18 months to get in-state tuition.</p>
<p>The cc idea might work. But the best thing is to just research what residency requirements are for the school and work with those.</p>
<p>[Let</a> me google that for you](<a href=“LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You”>LMGTFY - Let Me Google That For You)</p>
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<p>From the links that Sikorsky generously directed you to:</p>
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<p>You’re proposing being accepted as OOS, and then deferring for a year in order to gain IS tuition status.</p>
<p>Eugene may have a hippie vibe, but believe me, the UO Registrar is a fiscal conservative. We want/need your money and we’re gonna see right through that one!</p>