Question about residency and/or state

[Anonymous]

I have a HS sophomore so we are just starting to look into these things.

If we live in VA but child graduates from a private high school in MD, I understand that are still considered “out of state” for MD colleges and universities. That makes sense.

However, which state will kid be “from” with regards to admission quotas and such? That is, if Private College A only takes X number of students from a particular state, is kid considered to be from MD or VA? Or does it matter at all?

I’m asking because my friend is in NH but sends her child to boarding school in TN in order to get a Southeastern “bump” for New England colleges. And I’m not sure that’s even how it works!

[Anonymous]

I think in -state is where you pay your taxes. The student's application will show it's a boarding school.

[Anonymous]

Is this a troll?

You are considered a state resident where your homestead is and where you pay taxes. You are a Virginia resident. Your friend is a NH resident.

This isn't hard.

[Anonymous]

Depends on the school.

We are PA residents DD goes to a private school out of state. Penn State classified her as OOS. We had to appeal and prove to them that she was in-state to get the in-state tuition benefit. Pitt doesn’t do this and she was classified as in-state.

At other private colleges, she was grouped with the kid’s from her school, not her state. So the admissions reps assigned to her were the ones from her school state not her home state.

Not sure about boarding schools.

[Anonymous]

From Penn State’s website:

Note: An applicant’s residency is often set automatically based on the location of a student’s high school. If this no longer reflects your state of residency, you will need to submit a residency appeal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is this a troll?

You are considered a state resident where your homestead is and where you pay taxes. You are a Virginia resident. Your friend is a NH resident.

This isn't hard.

You missed the whole point of the question in your quest to be smug.

[Anonymous]

Where you’re from re: in state tuition is different than where you’re considered to be from re: admission. Best to check with the school

[Anonymous]

Colleges will vary in this, so one has to check at each prospective college. With that caveat, most colleges will treat OP’s child as a Virginia applicant.

[Anonymous]

Our kids got to HS in DC. We live in VA. Their regional admissions officer is different than the VA schools. They are covered by a different region--not VA.

I think this is what you are getting at. Yes- they get in-state VA tuition we are residences of VA. But--for National Merit it goes by the location of their HS-not residency. For admissions purpose, the HS controls for review--which AO assigned (but not residency which is a separate issue).

[Anonymous]

OP it can very from college to college. I recommend you put a list of colleges together that are important to you / your kid and then investigate them one by one via their websites

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have a HS sophomore so we are just starting to look into these things.

If we live in VA but child graduates from a private high school in MD, I understand that are still considered “out of state” for MD colleges and universities. That makes sense.

However, which state will kid be “from” with regards to admission quotas and such? That is, if Private College A only takes X number of students from a particular state, is kid considered to be from MD or VA? Or does it matter at all?

I’m asking because my friend is in NH but sends her child to boarding school in TN in order to get a Southeastern “bump” for New England colleges. And I’m not sure that’s even how it works!

What are these "quotas" you're going imagining exist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have a HS sophomore so we are just starting to look into these things.

If we live in VA but child graduates from a private high school in MD, I understand that are still considered “out of state” for MD colleges and universities. That makes sense.

However, which state will kid be “from” with regards to admission quotas and such? That is, if Private College A only takes X number of students from a particular state, is kid considered to be from MD or VA? Or does it matter at all?

I’m asking because my friend is in NH but sends her child to boarding school in TN in order to get a Southeastern “bump” for New England colleges. And I’m not sure that’s even how it works!

What are these "quotas" you're going imagining exist?

NP. 'Quote' is clearly too strong of a word. But it's clear that universities like geographic diversity. And they also look at applicants in the context of their HS, so a kid in a Tennessee HS would be viewed in the stack with TN. It's possible that the AO would 'correct for the fact that she was OOS in TN when considering the application. But I think the tendency would be to view her as a kid from a TN HS and thus kind of get the TN bump. Not formally as a quota but informally as in, 'We don't really have enough students from TN."