I’m applying for colleges soon, and was wondering if you have a vacation home in a state you could say that you are a resident.
Are you considered a resident of a state if you own a vacation home there?
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Do you have a mansion too, or is it a castle?
It depends which state – each state university system has it’s own system for students to be able to claim residency. In New York, for example, you must have lived here for at least one year, consecutively, prior to enrollment in the college or university to be charged resident tuition. How they prove it, though, is lucrative – because not everyone has leases or owns houses, you can just show that you have a car registered, that you have a state ID or license, of an article of mail from the electric, cable, phone, etc. companies. If you get mail at this home, you should probably be able to convince them of residency – if you have all of your applications mailed directly to that address, they probably won’t even ask. I lived in Massachusetts for one year, and when I reapplied to schools in New York, I used my friend’s address in New York, and even though the state school received and reviewed my transcripts from the Massachusetts university, they still didn’t even ask me for proof of residency.
Do you live full time at the vacation home? Or at least more than 50% of the time? Then you might be able to make the argument.