It’s easier to establish ca residency for UC’s in state tuition for an illegal immigrant than it is for other U.S. legal residents. The former just needs to attend ca public schools sporadically (ok to travel back and forth from ca to Mexico) the latter has a strict checklist of about 13 items to qualify for ca residency, including their senior year at a ca high school, lots of rules about their parents’ income and whereabouts etc.
Oh and that’s if they can get in.
The Essay has to be a sob story about the “immigrant experience” and of course if you check the “First generation” to go to college box, baby yer in...
But not our kids. They may take calculus in high school and get 5’s on the AP tests, but...no matter. You don’t get into the schools your taxes paid for.