Getting Texas Residency

[floydthefish]

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Has anyone not from Texas successfully gained Texas residency while going to school? UT appears to have very strict rules about this that appear to make it very difficult to do.

http://www.utexas.edu/student/admissions/residency/index.html

I'd love to hear if anyone from out of state has successfully done this and how they did it. Thanks.

 

[polf]

I looked into this before too.

you would need to live and work there for 12 consecutive months before date of TMDSAS application. say you're applying for 2008 enrollment (applying on June 1, 2007), you would need proof that you have been living and working texas since June 1, 2006.

 

[floydthefish]

I looked into this before too.

you would need to live and work there for 12 consecutive months before date of TMDSAS application. say you're applying for 2008 enrollment (applying on June 1, 2007), you would need proof that you have been living and working texas since June 1, 2006.

There are other ways to do it also.

 

[dentwannabe]

There are other ways to do it also.

TEXAS is very strict when it comes to granting state residency -- in part because they know they have cheap school tuitions that MANY STUDENTS ALL OVER THE U.S.A. would sell their mother for.... THUS, they run a tight ship. You really got to be there 12 months living/working to get residency.

 

[LonestarYankee]

I was in your boat as well. I moved from CO to Tejas back in 1999. I went to a community college for a couple of semesters (out-of-state) and then took a semester off. I went back to the community college (in Austin) and applied as in in-state resident. The school classified me as a Texas resident. The next semester I applied to UT as a Texas resident and was accepted-- as out of state. Like the other replies said, you have to live in Texas for 12 months without attending any college classes. Well, I did some research and found a law in the crazy TX constitution that said once you're classified as a Texas resident, you CANNOT be re-classified as a non-resident. I wrote UT a formal letter and cited the exact law, and they re-classified me as a resident. Whew... Basically, if you can outsmart the system (and have luck on your side) you can pull it off.... good luck!

 

[bobino]

Buy a house. I did it and got in-state residency starting my second year. There is another kid in my class who did the same thing. I also got a texas drivers license, registered my car in texas, registered to vote in texas, and my wife had been working in texas for a year. Having done all of this, when I applied they told me there was no guarantee and that it was a case-by-case decision. I might have just gotten lucky. When I got the letter back they implied that it was the fact that I owned a house that really made the difference. It can happen, good luck.

 

[drem2006]

I grew up in Texas and went to college and dental school there. All of the above is correct. They also give significant preference (95%) for admissions to all levels of state supported schools (law, med, dental, etc.) to tx residents. Another advantage of being a resident. We are also a HUGE state and have lots of schools (3 dental, 6 med schools, 5 of which are state supported). I don't know anyone who has gotten around the system. You do have to find little loop holes. If you can't and want to go to school here badly enough you can always live and work here for a year without going to school. I wish I had better advice.
Good luck.

 

[floydthefish]

Thanks very much for the responses. Sounds like it is possible, but no guarantee that it will happen.