Transfer, will I qualify for in-state?

<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I have had divorced parents since middle school and I spent more time with my mother than my father during which time my father was entirely in South Carolina. I moved around with my mother many times, two continents in two different countries in 3 different cities in 3 different cities- that was my high school. Now, I had a residence in North Carolina, my home state, also the state in which I was born and completed middle school. Also, I had completed my final 2 years of high school in New York, breaks and summers with my father, in SC. I then spend the following year, freshman year of college in NY; meanwhile, my mother moved back to NC, and the entire time my father was in SC, and I spent breaks split between them, and now I am living with my father. So, I would like to know if I could be considered as a resident of SC. Mind you, I have had my drivers license, of SC, for the past year and a half, also I have had my bank account there since before that. Just to add in more to this all, I wasn't considered a resident of NY for my senior year considering I had lived there for not even a full 2 years, and while I was alone in college, I don't eve know of what I was a resident, most probably NY, though I had one parent in NC and the other in SC, over which time I had spent more time with my father. I apologize for any grammatical errors, or redundancy. </p>

<p>Thanks for any insight,
frl6935</p>

<p>Assuming you are under 24, I would file FAFSA with whoever lives in the state you want to be considered a resident of. Under 24, your instate status is generally based on your parents as far as I know. The forums regarding financial stuff will probably have a better answer though.</p>

<p>If you haven’t done so, the first step is to google the name of the school and ‘state residency’, this will give you the policy of the school for IS tuition.</p>

<p>Then if you have further questions, you should call the school and talk to them. Every school has an office that determines residency issues, they are the ones to ask as they are the only ones that can answer you with certainty.</p>