<p>Hi i am looking to move to CA in late summer and want to establish residency the right way, the first way.</p>
<p>I understand it varies greatly from school to school, but does anybody have any success stories, and if so what school?</p>
<p>awesome</p>
<p>how about you come here, live for a year, pay taxes, and then get discount on tuition?</p>
<p>~words of wisdom~</p>
<p>California purposefully makes it very difficult to establish residency. Many posts pop up every year in the Financial Aid and Scholarship forum asking how to get residency in a variety of states. A large chunk of these are for California.</p>
<p>If you’re a dependent student, it’s incredibly difficult to establish California residency for tuition purposes. Unless you can convince your parents to move here… but even then, it would still take proving you all moved here for reasons other than academics and a year to establish residency.</p>
<p>For the UCs, if you are under 24, it requires two years of proving financial independence (this means you cannot live with anyone who is supporting you) on top of the usual one year in residence in the state and doing things like registering to vote, registering a car, paying taxes, etc. One of the other stipulations is one of the hardest to prove: intent to make California your permanent home for the foreseeable future. If the person(s) assigned to your case think that you came here for academic purposes only, your request for residency for tuition purposes would be denied.</p>
<p>The UC policy is much more generous than the CSU policy which requires three years of financial independence.</p>
<p>Also note that you would not receive much if any aid at all. The amount of money you’d have to make to support yourself would remove your chances for most (if not all) of Pell Grant and there would be no state aid from California to help you. The biggest (and most helpful) grant program in the state is only for those who were California residents when they graduated high school.</p>