What steps need to be taken to get in-state tuition. He is getting his driver’s licence in NC and owning a car as well. What else does he need to do? He is going to Wake Tech first and then transferring to NCS. What are the pitfalls? Do we need to emancipate him? He is planning on getting his own loans. Need help figuring this out.
First look up the information on instate tuition and there will be details. They likely won’t make it easy, esp if you come to the state for college without being a resident for a year.
http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/about-grad/docs/residency-handout-2013.pdf
Next I don’t know how you think he can get his own loans. He can get his student loan for thise amounts. NO ONE will lend to a student except for the fed:
Dependent
freshman 5,500
sophomore 6,500
jr 7,500
sr 7,500
You can’t ‘emancipate him’ without being arrested for abuse. It doesn’t work like that.
What steps need to be taken to get instate tuition?
Have proof that you have been living in NC for a year. Since he is getting a NC drivers license, I assume he does not have one. I would get it within the next couple of weeks so that you have proof of living in NC by next fall (mid August). Owning a car doesn’t prove residency.
It’s not clear from your post where he lives now, so I’m assuming he is moving to NC and needs to wait a year for instate tuition. I have 3 in college and a forth adult child moved back home to get instate tuition. He is working a year to save money and will start next summer at the local community college once his year is up. He got his DL changed right away and got a job to prove that he is living instate for a year.
I see no pitfalls in going to Wake Tech first, but some would say he is missing the freshman college experience; dorms, parties, away from home for the first time etc.
Emancipate him? So he is under 18. That might be a question for a lawyer. There is a big difference between 17 yrs 10 months old and 16 years old.
Loans, of course, are the absolute worst way to pay for college. Start off with FAFSA. You might be able to get some grants. Even if you make a decent amount of money some aide might be available, and if you make too much to get any aide, then you should be able to afford to help your kid without too much in loans. All schools have a lot of scholarships. You have to look for them and look elsewhere too. All three of my kids in college got scholarships. None were in the top 20% in high school but all excelled enough in community college to get scholarships. All went to community college to save money and live at home the first two years. 2 out of 3 worked part time jobs. 2 out of 3 found full ride scholarships for at least one year. It appears that all three will get into NCSU in engineering when non would have been accepted out of high school into the college of engineering.
Thank you for your lengthy response. I have four kids also but only two in college, one in high school and one in junior high.Kid #1 is going the JC route in our state. This is our first foray into OOS anything! Appreciate your insight.
Bodilymom
Thank you for your prompt response. Have to have some sort of super powers to figure all this stuff out 
Appreciate your feedback.
Bodilymom
Out of sheer curiosity, why not stay in state?
Other than that, I would think the NC requirement to demonstrate that you intend to make NC a permanent home is going to be tough. As a parent, my own experience with NCSU required a little bit of extra paper work because we had not been in NC very long. But we had packed up the whole family and relocated, so it was pretty clear that we were NC residents.
I don’t think you’re going to have an easy road - especially taking into account “This is not a checklist, and because each application is considered on its own, even those who meet each element below still may not qualify for in-state tuition” and “The conduct of the student, taken in total, must demonstrate an intention to make North Carolina his or her permanent dwelling place. The classifier looks for evidence showing a cluster or focus of favorable information occurring about the same time as the indicator of the initial intent to domicile, not when physical presence in the state began.”
http://www.ncsu.edu/grad/tuition-residency/
Evidence of North Carolina domicile for tuition purposes includes actions that would normally be characteristic and expected of any permanent resident. A variety of evidence is considered when evaluating requests for instate tuition status; however, no single factor or combination of factors may be considered conclusive evidence of domicile. Following is a list of the kinds of information and conduct that may be considered as evidence in determining domicile. This is not a checklist, and because each application is considered on its own, even those who meet each element below still may not qualify for in-state tuition:
• Living or not living in the home of one’s parents
• Voter registration and voting
• Location of jury duty
• Registering, licensing, and maintaining a motor vehicle
• Driver’s license or state ID card
• Location of permanent employment
• Filing of North Carolina state income tax return
• Places where one resides during periods between academic sessions
• Location of personal property
• Property tax assessment
• Ownership of residential real property that is one’s primary residence (including maintenance and payment of expenses associated with the property)
• Place from which one graduated from high school
• Place of residence prior to enrollment in an institution of higher education
• Memberships in professional associations, unions, civic organizations, etc.
• Sources of one’s financial support
• Citizenship or immigration status
It is important to remember that a person can have multiple residences, but can have only one domicile at a given time.
To determine whether a student has established a domicile in North Carolina, as opposed to a mere temporary residence, one must first determine if the student has capacity to establish residency. The conduct of the student, taken in total, must demonstrate an intention to make North Carolina his or her permanent dwelling place. The classifier looks for evidence showing a cluster or focus of favorable information occurring about the same time as the indicator of the initial intent to domicile, not when physical presence in the state began.