UCLA and Cal Grant Residency Requirements

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<p>My granddaughter is currently attending a private college in New York. She wants to come back to California and plans to apply to transfer to UCLA (she was accepted for this year but decided to go out of state). She has been a resident of California for all but 3 months of her life and in legal guardianship until she turned 18 (so has independent student status). She has a California driver's license, votes in California, and has a checking/savings account in California. My husband and I are both residents of California and have been all of our lives. </p>

<p>Since she graduated from a high school in California and will have only been out of the state to attend college for the 2014-2015 academic year will be be eligible for Resident tuition at UCLA and Cal Grant?</p>

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<p><a href=“UC Legal - Office of the General Counsel | UCOP”>UC Legal - Office of the General Counsel | UCOP;

<p><a href=“http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/forms/residenceclass.pdf”>http://www.registrar.ucla.edu/forms/residenceclass.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Looks like a very good chance of being considered a CA resident but you can call the FA dept for some advice.</p>

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<p>I don’t think UCLA takes soph year transfers. I think they take junior year transfers. It is difficult to transfer into UCLA without coming from a Calif CC (I think).</p>

<p>Did she do whatever needs to be done to preserve her Cal Grant status?</p>

<p>It doesn’t sound like she has lost her Calif residency.</p>