Which State do I belong to????

Applying to College
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<p>I don't know which State schools I will be able to apply to as a resident... Here's the situation:</p>

<p>-I grew up in CA, living in my grandma's house with my mom.</p>

<p>-I spent my Junior year in another state. My mom and I left grandma. (moved September 2008)</p>

<p>-I'm going to spend my Senior year back in CA. Moving back with grandma. (moving now, September 2009) My mom will remain in the other state for another month or two, and then come join us.</p>

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<p>You live in CA if that is where your permanent address is. Aka where mail is sent, what you put on government forms, etc.</p>

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<p>Well on the common app, I’m putting my permanent address as the one in the other state, because that’s where my mom will live for a few more months. I’m putting my mailing address as the one in CA</p>

<p>I’m considering just forgetting about public options. It seems like my situation makes it too complicated.</p>

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<p>I would say take advantage of the CA residence for admission to the UC system, if that’s what your aiming at. Otherwise, it would matter aside from which residence it’s easiest to retrieve mail from. Because you are spending senior year at CA, I’m pretty sure that this is technically your state of residence. It doesn’t matter that your mom lives elsewhere.</p>

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<p>^ that would be ideal, but I have heard that it depends only on where your parents/ legal guardians are living. and on top of that, you must be living there like a year before you apply or something…</p>

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<p>I don’t think that your school is going to have any way to confirm your legal parent’s residence. Second, by the time you apply to school it will be November for Early and January for Regular Decision. Therefore, your mother would be in California by the time you apply, so the issue isn’t really a problem then.</p>

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<p>I’ll try filling up a UC application, and see what happens. though I won’t count on it.</p>

<p>how does UC verify that we’re residents of CA anyway?</p>