| It's a fact of life that has been true ever since there | | | | allowed to become a resident! |
| have been colleges and universities... if you attend a | | | | Though it is possible to change your residency, the |
| state college or university, and you are not a legal | | | | process is highly regulated and can be difficult, and it's |
| resident of that state, you're going to have to pay | | | | becoming more and more difficult as time goes on. |
| three to four times higher tuition than in-state residents | | | | Some states for instance, make you prove that you're |
| pay. | | | | financially independent before they allow you to |
| What's the reason for this? Well, state colleges | | | | become a resident. How many college students are |
| receive most if not all of their budget from the actual | | | | financially independent? Not many. |
| state themselves. And the state gets that money from | | | | So basically, the requirements for residency change |
| the taxes that it charges to its taxpaying residents. So | | | | from state to state but most of them are similar. |
| basically the taxpayers of each state pay for, or | | | | Usually you have to live in the state for a year, but |
| subsidize if you like to think of it that way, a large part | | | | sometimes only for six months. In almost all instances, |
| of your college tuition. Therefore if you don't live in that | | | | the burden of proof rests squarely on the shoulders of |
| state, you don't pay taxes to that state, and you | | | | the student, because most states figure that you are |
| shouldn't benefit by getting cheaper college tuition... at | | | | just there to get your education and leave again. |
| least that's how the thinking goes. | | | | Here are some basic things that you will have to deal |
| But we don't really care about all of that, do we? | | | | with, or questions you will have to ask when you go |
| Nope. We just want to get that cheaper College tuition! | | | | through this process. First, have you ever filed an |
| You've come to the right place, because that's exactly | | | | income tax return in your new state? Are you |
| what I'm going to show you how to do in this article | | | | financially independent, or do you rely on your parents |
| today. | | | | for money? Do you have a drivers license registered |
| The Supreme Court of the United States of America | | | | in your new state? Have you held a job in your new |
| has ruled that state colleges can in fact charge | | | | state? |
| nonresidents a higher rate of tuition but, those same | | | | If you can answer yes to most of these questions, |
| students must be allowed the opportunity to change | | | | then you are well on your way to changing your |
| their residency to the state for which they are | | | | residency status and therefore receiving college tuition |
| attending college in. After all, you're going to be living | | | | from a state school at considerably lower costs... |
| there for four years so you should very well be | | | | |