<p>"Do you believe you are eligible for one of the following nonresident tuition exemptions?"</p>
<p>I am a california resident so am i elegible? i dont think i am but i need help with this question.</p>
<p>no, because you are not a non-resident. You live in California and are not subject to that tuition at all. </p>
<p>Its a technicality, but the UC charter in the 1800s intended the system to provide for a tuition free education for the top students in California. They do this by avoiding the imposition of any charge with the name “tuition”. Instead, as a resident, you pay education fees, student service fees, berkeley campus fees, health insurance fees and transit pass fees, but no tuition. Out of state students, pay an additional amount, which is named called the nonresident tuition fee, still in accord with the charter of the Berkeley as the founding campus of the UC system in 1868 (since it was an existing campus of one of the two existing colleges that were combined to create Cal as the University of California.</p>
<p>Thus, if you know that history and noticed the names of the fees you pay, you would realize that “nonresident tuition” is a charge that only OOS pay for. Residents need no exemption as they are never subject to that charge.</p>
<p>I thought they actually changed the name of the student service fees to tuition?</p>
<p>Thanks for the answer</p>
<p>Jamie235 - You may be thinking of the change from University Registration Fee to Student Service Fee</p>
<p>[Registration</a> Fees - Office Of The Registrar](<a href=“http://registrar.berkeley.edu/prospective_students/registration_enrollment/feesched.html]Registration”>http://registrar.berkeley.edu/prospective_students/registration_enrollment/feesched.html)</p>