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[quote=Anonymous]I’m getting ready to move and have a rising senior at W&M.  You apply in VA, where you have lived and paid taxes and have a drivers license and your kid has attended HS and a zillion other things they ask you to document. At W&M (and I’d assume other VA schools are the same), if parents move OOS, the kid has a 12 month grace period to establish residency on their own and not solely for tuition purposes.

For the first year, they keep in state tuition. And then to establish residency on their own, there is a list of things they look at— car in their name registered in state, apartment lease, registration to vote, etc.  If they don’t establish residency in the 12 months, you pay OOS tuition (but will have gotten the instate admission bump).

So, we will likely move September of my kid’s senior year, and legally and without fudging pay in state tuition for fall and spring semesters under the 12 months grace period without her doing anything.  Any earlier (like after sophomore year) and she would have needed to establish residency or we’d have to pay OOS.

That said, she is interested in a VA college for grad school.  She’ll be able to apply in state (12 month rule).  But, we’ll have to weigh that this fall in deciding whether it’s worth the gamble to establish residency for her for tuition purposes.

I know it’s generally possible to establish residency for your kid, but can be a logistic mess/headache.  I’m not sure I know how it would work at W&M though, because it has a 2 year residency requirement, so your kid wouldn’t rent an apartment as a sophomore.

My advice?  Look at the specific schools website on parents moving and make sure what they want is feasible. Have your kid get in as in state Pay fall (and spring) tuition as in state.  Then work directly with the school to make sure you give them exactly what they want to establish your kid as in state on their own.

BTW— this does not apply to military transfers. That’s its own separate thing.  [/quote]

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