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@pdxstudent: That actually isn't true. You have to drop out of school and work full time for a year, then reapply to school to be considered for in-state tuition. The length of time you live here, or whether you own property or pay all your taxes, has no bearing on paying in-state tuition. I've been trying for 5-6 years now, and have failed each time. They hate allowing out of state students to cross over to being in-state.

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You have got to be kidding me. I'm an OSU student, own my own house, pay income and property taxes, and after seven years, am STILL paying out of state tuition. I even had cancer for two years and had to stay enrolled, or I would have been thrown out of school (so said the school). Half the time I ended up dropping my classes because I was too sick to go, but at least I tried (and each time, they kept my money even though it was a health problem). I've tried to be an in-state student three times, and I've been denied every time because I didn't fulfill the requirement to work for a year without taking classes (and apparently having cancer isn't good enough). Letting illegal immigrants pay in-state tuition is ludicrous, even if there are "stringent requirements". How about you give ME in-state tuition, and then we can talk. I've considered myself an Oregonian for about five years now, and I am very, very frustrated with the hoops I have to jump through to even get heard, not to mention be taken seriously.

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