<p>My residency is really blurry so I prefer looking for scholarships that doesn't require residency.</p>
<p>Any suggestion?</p>
<p>Residency isn’t blurry in the colleges’ eyes; either you’re a resident or you’re not, and you can only be a resident of one state. If you qualify as in-state on the admissions side, you should qualify on the scholarship side. </p>
<p>Are you looking for outside scholarships for a public school?</p>
<p>Or are you looking at a private school? In many (most?) cases, residency doesn’t matter there.</p>
<p>I think we need a bit more information.</p>
<p>Are you an American citizen or a resident with a green card?</p>
<p>Do your parents live in a particular state or in two states?</p>
<p>Did you go to high school in the same state as where your parents live?</p>
<p>Do you live outside the country?</p>
<p>I’m a Vietnamese student holding an A-1 visa card(diplomatic) so I follow with my parents to America. I’m live in California and I have been here for almost a year - so I’m only considered as a resident in the state of California. Furthermore, I heard that I couldn’t get a green card as long as I hold this type of visa. </p>
<p>For college, I’m mainly applying for UCs but also considering some small LACs in the East. So yes, I need scholarships since I’m pretty certain about enrolling into a public school, unless the private schools give me enough merit-aid…(but that would unlikely happen) </p>
<p>I hope that would be enough info.</p>
<p>So, are you considered a California resident for in-state tuition purposes? or, would you be charged OOS fees?</p>
<p>Since you’re required to be here because of your home country, shouldn’t your home country have to compensate your parents for your some/all of your college costs since they will be higher than your home country’s?</p>
<p>When my husband’s company requires its employees to live in other countries, the company pays mega bucks to have the children educated in those countries.</p>
<p>Some scholarship deadlines have passed (Dec 1). Have you looked at Tulane? </p>
<p>What are your stats? From your stats, we might be able to suggest some schools.</p>
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[University</a> of California - Admissions](<a href=“http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/ca_residency.html]University”>http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/admissions/undergrad_adm/ca_residency.html)</p>
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<p>I believe that I’m a resident in California (thanks to alamemom website) and so I would be paying in-state tuition.
Very unfortunately, the Vietnamese consulate does not pay for their employees’ children college tuition… they only pay for elementary school… :(</p>
<p>Ok, so my stats (very average) are:</p>
<p>GPA: UW/W 4.0 (Junior year) - 3.57(UW) Senior year
SAT: 1760 (CR 520/M 630/W 610/E 12) ACT: none
SAT II: French with Listening(710)/Math II(580)
Ranking: 6/215
Type of School: Public - very uncompetitive
ELC Student (Eligibility of Local Context)
Course LOad:
-Fresh/Soph/Junior: Regular Classes
-Senior: AP Lit, AP Cal AB, AP Art Hist, and some regular classes + AP stats, AP environmental, AP French, AP Psych (self-study)</p>
<p>Significant ECs/Award:
- president of Art club (9th,10th,11th)
- Most Outstanding student in Junior year (harvard book award)
- Book club (12th grade) –> wrote my personal statement about it</p>
<p>So, you are able to pay in-state tuition at Cal publics, and you’re a senior, right?</p>
<p>Which UC’s have you applied to? Your SATs are a bit low for some of the UCs, so I hope you also applied to some of the mid to lower tier UCs.</p>
<p>Your stats are not high enough to get you any significant merit at OOS schools even if you were a citizen. Typically, to get decent merit scholarships you need at least a 2000 SAT. Since OOS schools tend to cost a lot more than in-state publics, if you can’t get scholarships to bring down their costs, they won’t be cost-effective for you.</p>
<p>Therefore, the Calif state schools will be your cheapest option if you’d get in-state rates. However, if you somehow don’t qualify for in-state rates in Calif, your dad needs to appeal to the Viet Consulate to pay the non-res portion of the costs. They should have to pay for that.</p>
<p>Since you will be applying to public colleges and universities in California, you need to take the question of the length of your residence and your A visa status directly to the admissions offices at those places. You should also visit your local community colleges. They will be less expensive than the universities.</p>
<p>I live just outside Washington, DC. Many students with A and G visas study at our local community colleges because of the lower cost of tuition and fees. Some of them convert to F visas so that they can have permission to work. You might want to consider that option as well.</p>
<p>Wishing you all the best.</p>
<p>^^^
I get the feeling (altho I could be wrong) that since the OP doesn’t mention applying to any Cal States, that CCs are out of the question.</p>
<p>I don’t know the “drill” regarding CA community colleges. But where I am, the applications for community colleges are accepted almost up to the day classes start. Some students have a change of heart and enroll late. Some students rethink their college options in terms of finances, etc…and enroll. Some students just don’t make up their minds about what to do until later. </p>
<p>If CC enrollment in CA has later deadlines…or almost no deadlines…this student has plenty of time to reconsider that option.</p>
<p>thumper, that would have been completely correct until THIS year. Unfortunately, California’s budget problems have reached all the way down to the community college level. Our local community college announced yesterday that they are over-enrolled and will accept no new students for the Spring semester - only returning students, and returning students who have not yet registered will not be able to register for Spring. Students hoping to enroll for next fall are encouraged to apply by March to secure a spot. (This is not a small community college - it enrolls over 20,000 students!)</p>
<p>The newspaper article mentioned that many of California’s community colleges ARE still accepting applications, but that several are in the same situation as this one.</p>
<p>I hope things get better before the formerly wonderful higher education system in California is completely dismantled.</p>
<p>Yes, CCs and Cal States are out of the question. However, I would be gladly to enroll into CC if I get rejected by all schools that I applied to. and maybe transfer out in one year? </p>
<p>So I applied to (from toughest to easiest)
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UC Santa Barabara
UC Santa Cruz </p>
<p>Alamemom, does that mean they won’t also accept high school students applying for the spring semester?</p>
<p>archi, that is just the info from one community college, but yes, that particular school declining applications from new students for the Spring semester. High school students who had a Fall semester class are returning students and hopefully have already registered. Check with your local community college to see what their situation is. So far, only a few of the over 100 California community colleges are in that situation, but things may change quickly.</p>
<p>You’re an ELC student? For a particular school?</p>
<p>Of the UCs to which archi has applied, UCD, UCSB and UCI have an ELC guarantee.</p>
<p>That’s what I thought, that’s why I was wondering why he wrote…</p>
<p>However, I would be gladly to enroll into CC if I get rejected by all schools that I applied to.</p>
<p>How could he get rejected by UCD, UCSB and UCI if he has the ELC guarantee?</p>
<p>As much as the OP might want to explore some OOS possibilities, since his stats won’t merit scholarships, and he’s an int’l, one of those UCs is going to be his best financial bet.</p>
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<p>He could get rejected if he doesn’t meet this year’s admission requirements. ELC is for residency purposes and does not guarantee admission, I don’t think.</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s what ELC is for. I think it guarantees admittance into at least one UC.</p>
<p>[Welcome</a> to ELC](<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/]Welcome”>http://www.ucop.edu/sas/elc/)
ELC stands for Eligibility in the Local Context and is one of three paths to freshman eligibility for the University of California, along with Eligibility in the Statewide Context and Eligibility by Examination Alone. Under ELC, the top 4 percent of students in each participating California high school class will be designated UC-eligible based on the coursework taken while in high school.</p>
<p>The University implemented the ELC program to advance long-held goals. ELC program increases the pool of eligible students and was designed to return UC to the guideline set by the California Master Plan for Higher Education, which The University implemented the ELC program to advance several long-held goals. </p>
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<li><p>is that the top 12.5% of public high school graduates will meet the UC eligibility criteria. </p></li>
<li><p>The ELC program gives UC a presence in each California high school and serves to stimulate a college-going culture at those schools that typically do not send many graduates to the University. </p></li>
<li><p>The ELC program recognizes and rewards individual academic accomplishments in the context of the student’s high school and the opportunities available to the student.</p></li>
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<p>I will defer to the folks FROM California who are familiar with the ever changing landscape of the higher education system there. I know there are issues this year due to budget cuts that are affecting college choices in CA in general. I’m sure someone with first hand experience with the CA schools will be able to pipe in here.</p>