From saint@admsec.wwu.edu Tue Nov 16 15:42:55 1999 Received: from mxu1.u.washington.edu (mxu1.u.washington.edu [140.142.32.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id PAA30118 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:42:53 -0800 Received: from blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu [140.160.248.20]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id PAA32155 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:42:53 -0800 Received: from uis.admsec.wwu.edu (gaea.admsec.wwu.edu [140.160.249.20]) by blackhole.admcs.wwu.edu (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id PAA11133 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:42:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (saint@localhost) by uis.admsec.wwu.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id PAA03251 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:45:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 1999 15:45:10 -0800 (PST) From: "Joseph M. St.Hilaire" To: Discussion of Residency Issues State Wide Subject: Re: Two Issues In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII ***My 2-bit responses below. Joe St.Hilaire Western On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Virjean Edwards wrote: > Hi All > > Input on the following two issues would be appreciated. > > 1. Dental student attends the UW through the WICHE program. It > is not possible to get residency while in the program, but now that he is > out of the program, he wants to use the past year toward the 12 month > residency requirement. All ties have been in place for the year and WICHE > does not care if he uses the time toward gaining residency. > > Would you approve it or should he be off the program for one year > before we grant approval? >****We had a case like this several years ago, and that prompted us to put in our literature the following clause: A student cannot qualaify for resident status if he/she (or parent, in the case of a dependent student): - has been attending, during the past year, a Washington college or university as a participant in the National Student Exchange or WICHE program from another state. - has received financial assistance from another state government in the past year; this includes Alaska Permanent Fund, Alaska Student Loan, and reciprocity awards. So my answer is: he/she must be off the program for a full year before becoming eligible. > 2. A parent places $10,000 in her daughter's bank account January > 1, 2000. This account does not have the parent's name on it so the money > belongs solely to the student. The student uses these funds during the > year. In January of 2001, can this income be considered toward the amount > needed for financial independence? If not, how is it different from a > trust fund since it is irrevocable once deposited in the student's > account? > ******I've had such cases, and I don't see how we can treat them any differently than a trust fund. Such cases are the bane of a residency official's existence! > I look forward to your responses! > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Virjean H. Edwards University of Washington > Assistant Registrar Office of the Registrar > Residency Officer 264 Schmitz Hall, Box 355850 > (206)543-3290 Seattle WA 98195-5850 > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > .