How to Save $5,000 On Your MBA Tuition

Just go to school in California as a resident.

I don’t think they’ve finalized the actual residential discount, but I’ve heard that it will be at least $5,000.  The process of proving your residency in California is a bit cumbersome.  The registration office sent me a list of required documents, based off of the information I had submitted before:

• Driver’s license
• Vehicle registration
• Year old rental lease
• 2010 Tax Return
• 2009 Tax Return
• 2010 W2’s
• 2009 W2’s
• Latest Pay Stub
• Confirmation letter from payroll manager
• Bank Statement with CA address

It took me about 2.5 hours to find, compile, scan, and print everything; at the end I had over 30 pages of documentation to submit.  And to top it off, they gave us a tiny yellow envelope to mail everything back.

My experience with UCLA’s Grad School administrative office hasn’t been great thus far.  First off, I never received an email from the graduate division with links to fill out my Statement of Intent to Register (SIR) and Statement of Legal Residency SLR).  I figured out online how to complete these tasks because I needed them to apply for housing.  Secondly, the curriculum has not been finalized yet and, therefore, the waiver requirements for each course have not been distributed.  I’m pretty sure I can test of introductory Accounting and Finance, and maybe take a more difficult course, but having been away from the core material for years, I’d definitely need some review first.

Anyway, I guess it’s still pretty early in the year.  Hopefully things will get better.

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