myDeaconmyhand
First man to get a team of horses up Bear Mountain
what does in state tuition have to do with the federal government? Every UNC system school verifies your graduation status when you apply, and they also determine your residential status. For instance, when I applied, UNC considered me as an in-state student based on where I graduated HS, and NC State considered me as out of state because my parents lived in KY.Of course it is. And it is how things work in the federal government. For the purposes of determining in-state tuition, the states may have their own ways of doing things. They probably also are more easily able to verify records. The feds do not have the resources, reasons, manpower, or jurisdiction to verify such things nationwide. There may be circumstances where the reasons or jurisdiction are provided, but only after much heavy lifting and an abundance of red tape.