At most public colleges, if you present them with a high school transcript from out-of-state they will automatically charge you out-of-state tuition. It is your responsibility to prove otherwise. Simply giving them a local address won’t work.

Generally, you must live in the new state a year to qualify as a resident. But you can’t count that time living there if you are enrolled in college. Let me say that again… you can’t count that time towards residency if you are in college. So suggesting you go to a community college in Virginia wouldn’t solve your problem. First, you would be charged out-of-state tuition at the community college. Then, you would be charged out-of-state tuition at Virginia Tech. I suppose this would save you money (community colleges are cheaper) but in the long run, it wouldn’t get you in-state tuition.

My friend made this common “residency” assumption as well. She opted to go to an out-of-state school thinking she would be charged in-state after a year and was curtly told that once she was classified as a non-resident, she would always be a non-resident. That mistake cost her about 40 grand in student loans, which she is now defaulted on.

My advise: Go to the community college IN YOUR state, then transfer to VT after 2 years. It’ll be cheaper in the long run. Only 2 years of out of state vs 4.

Good Luck!

If you’re up to a challenge, you could move out there for a bit and get state residency. There’s going to be a ton of regular/not university owned apartments over there housing college students – there are probably a bunch looking for roomates. That way you will get to know people who attend the university, you can work full time and save a bit of money, and get in-state tuition.

Just make sure you apply as if you were going next year. They’re probably more likely to accept you later if you’ve already been accepted once. Some schools even guarantee it. Of course, if they don’t then you do run a slight risk of not being accepted after you’ve gained state residency. If you don’t wait so long that collegeboard gets rid of your SAT scores however, then you should be able to apply as if you were a senior.

There’s an added bonus in there – many schools like to see work experience. It shows that you can handle yourself in life.

Of course, scholarship is always an option.

Or you can find a friend of relative in Virginia and switch your address to that. It probably wouldn’t work though.

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I think Bezi_cat and Travis have got it right. I especially like Bezi_cat’s idea of rooming with some students near campus…puts you in contact, pick their brains on the system and learn the campus layout….while working and living there to establish your legal residency.

Travis’ idea of enrolling in a comm coll and paying the non-resident fees (probably considerably lower than the university) could be a middle ground, if you can afford it. Chances are most of the courses you take can transfer to fulfill the general ed requirements at the university…easy enough to check out by getting the catalogs of both schools and matching up the first year course requirements…and to see if both schools are accredited to facilitate the transfer. And it wouldn’t hurt to talk with counselors at the comm coll and mention your intention to transfer to that univ to see if they have special programs to grease the skids for a smooth and easy transfer. If so, you might consider doing the second year at the comm coll (save even more when you pay resident rates…still probably lower than the second year tuition at the university, too).

The key thing I would add is to get the college catalog and find the functional definition the comm college and university use for determining “residency”. [Note: check both…should be the same, but check just the same to be sure.] If necessary, contact the school and ask them point blank.

Key factors are:

1) minimum length of time to live in the state to qualify

2) specific documents required (utility bills, rental/lease agreements, pay check stubs, bank accounts, driver’s license, whatever they accept…know these and have MORE than the minimum)

Hope this helps. Best wishes.

The sure way is to live in the state you wanna go to school in for a year to establish new residency. You could either work that year, go to a community college (paying less money) or enroll in VT but only take a few class’ for the year then after year go as full-time student.

There may be other ways in transfering from a school in your state to the new state school and they dont charge you the new state tuition or other things like that. Depends on the states and schools.

I am from Texas and am an out-of-state student at a large university in Louisiana.

My school offers out-of-state tuition wavers to the children of alumni, students who demonstrate a talent in an area that would help the university (sports, music, debate, etc.) or to students with a high GPA and test scores in high school.

I qualified for the tuition waiver through my high school gpa and ACT scores.

I am sure this isn’t offered at all large universities, but check with the scholarship office and see if there are programs for exceptional students.

Another suggestion would be to sit out a year and work in Virginia, register in to vote, etc. to establish residency.

If you are up for doing something wild…you could always marry a Virginia resident and gain residency that way! 🙂

If Virginia Tech is offering something that you are truly interested in studying that is not offered in North Carolina, it might be worth it to suck of the cost with student loans and grants and go for it. But if you’re going to VT to watch football games and for the campus life, it isn’t worth being in debt for 10 years to pay off your tuition/”bar tab.”

Good luck with your college search and I wish you the best. Going to a school out-of-state has been a great experience for me and I hope you get the same opportunity.

If there was a way around it, there would be no out of state tuition because people would get around it.

There is one way though that works 100% of the time. Join the military and get assigned to Virginia. Almost every state extends in-state tuition to military personnel assigned in their state. Virginia is one of those states.

I lived in New York- and I wanted to go to Temple University in Philidelphia. But the Out of state fees were too much, so I simply, worked hard and rented out a apartment there.

Yes, the first semester I had to pay out of state, but the rest I could prove that I paid the bills in that apartment and it became in state.

I don’t know if you could do the same, but its worth telling you how I got around it.

Have a fun time at college!

Krazy.

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