Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 3, 1994 TAG: 9408040021
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: Associated Press
DATELINE: FREDERICKSBURG LENGTH: Short
When she tries to qualify for in-state tuition after taking a college night class.
A Fredericksburg circuit judge ruled Monday that Dana Glenn, 22, must pay out-of-state tuition at Mary Washington College because she failed to prove she is not living in Virginia primarily to attend school.
Glenn, whose parents live in New Jersey, had asked Judge William Ledbetter to reverse the college's ruling that she is an out-of-state student. Being a Virginian would have saved her about $4,000 a year in tuition and fees, she said.
Virginia law says a person isn't an in-state student if the primary reason for living in Virginia is to attend college.
Glenn attended Mary Washington for three years, then sat out last fall's semester to work. She held a series of part-time jobs and now works full time as a live-in nanny, she said.
Glenn testified that she is financially independent; her parents don't declare her as a dependent when they pay federal income taxes, and her bank accounts are in Virginia.
She did almost everything necessary to prove that she is living on her own in Virginia, Judge William Ledbetter said.
The problem was an evening course she took last spring at Mary Washington while she was working full time.
``That's bothersome,'' Ledbetter said, because it furthers the impression that her main reason for living in Virginia is to attend school.
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