<p>I'm currently a CA resident. If I go out-of-state to college, could I transfer back to a UC if necessary and still pay in-state tuition? What about coming back for grad school?</p>
<p>I'm guessing that wouldn't work...but can anyone tell me for sure?</p>
<p>It should work. Your residency is based on your parents' place of residence. If they remain in California, the UCs should consider you a California resident no matter where you started college.</p>
<p>So even if I'm off living in a different state (over the age of eighteen, too), I could come back later? When you move to a different state for college, you don't assume residency there?
That's pretty cool....</p>
<p>That's correct; you don't assume residency there. Otherwise, every out of stater who attends a UC could pay in-state rates for their 2nd, 3rd and 4th years, and we know that California doesn't want that. Most states, in fact, say that you cannot assume residency while you are in the state as a student.</p>
<p>Just a quick point - You will likely qualify as a resident of CA for grad school IF you attend right after undergrad. However, if you graduate, live in another state for another year or 2 and then go to grad school in CA, you will likely not be considered a resident any longer.</p>
<p>That's correct. As long as you move back to CA and work there, you'll keep your residency status as far as the UC is concerned.</p>
<p>Jackson: I have heard that it may not be so easy to transfer back to a UC in general. You should check into that before taking it into your plans.</p>
<p>Well, what if your parents move with you? You wouldn't have to pay out of stay then, would you?</p>
<p>Establishing residency is not instantaneous in most, if not all, states.</p>
<p>I have a friend who moved away from our state when her D was soph. in high school (never sold their house here, just rented it). They moved back at Christmas of D's senior year. She had applied to a couple of instate u's and was told that she would be considered oos for the first semester and instate thereafter because by then it would be one year since they had moved back.</p>