UC Schools Application - Residency Question?

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<p>Hi. I currently live in Louisiana and have attended a Louisiana High School for 3 years.
I moved here from California and had lived there my whole life and attended a high school there for 1 year. After high school, I plan on moving back to California and staying at my grandmother's house.</p>

<p>My question is, when filling out my application for the University of California, should I list my permanent address as my grandmother's house in Newport, or my current address in Louisiana because this is where my mother lives? Will this affect my residency or chances of admission at all? What should I do?</p>

<p>Also, on the third step of the application, there is a section that asks you to select one from, "I have lived in California my whole life" or "I do not live in California," and under the second option it asks if you attended a high school in California for two or more years, which sadly I did not. :/</p>

<p>Advice? What should be my course of action?</p>

<p>Thanks very much.</p>

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Your permanent address is the address where you live. You live in Louisiana.

You do not live in California, so you select “I do not live in California.”

You have already answered this one correctly: you did not.

If you can afford to pay the out-of-state costs for the University of California as an out-of-state student (which is what you are), then apply. If you cannot pay the out-of-state costs, apply to your in-state university in Louisiana.</p>

<p>Good luck.</p>

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<p>Right. I was already pretty sure of the second. I had someone tell me to put “lived there my whole life” and they seemed adamant about it, so I figured double-checking could never hurt. As for the first part, it asks for your Current Address and Permanent Address if they are different. I listed the Louisiana address as my current address, but I was unsure about what my Permanent one should be, considering I plan on moving back as soon as I’m out of high school? Is the answer still the same?</p>

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<p>If the someone who was adamant about saying you lived in California your whole life knew that you lived in Louisiana for the past three years, then they were telling you to lie. I am wondering how they would explain your high school transcript showing three years at a Louisiana high school?</p>

<p>Please read this: <a href=“http://ucop.edu/ogc/documents/student-information-sheet.pdf[/url]”>http://ucop.edu/ogc/documents/student-information-sheet.pdf&lt;/a&gt; and follow the links. It is clearly explained. In your current situation, the only way for you to establish residency for tuition purposes would be for you AND YOUR PARENT to move to California for one full year while you do not attend school (you are under 24, so moving to California and living with a relative does NOT count - it would have to be your parent). The residency determination date is in July, so you would have to wait and apply for the Fall, 2013 semester.</p>

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<a href=“http://www.ucop.edu/ogc/documents/uc-residence-policy.pdf#page=14[/url]”>http://www.ucop.edu/ogc/documents/uc-residence-policy.pdf#page=14&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Thank you very much! Your info was very helpful. I appreciate it! :]</p>

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<p>Similiar situation. My D was born and raised in CA and went to Elem, Middle, and one year of HS. Her father took an expat assignment and the family moved to Europe where she will graduate from HS at an International School. Her parents still own a house in CA and they file/pay state and federal taxes every year. Can she still claim CA residency? Or is she considered OOS student? Much obliged for any clarity in this situation.</p>