Yeah, we're on the semester system in our house. We'll gladly pay for first semester . . . but subsequent semesters are all based upon passing classes. They know we'll pay for four years, and we expect them to move significantly closer to graduation with the end of each semester.
My girls are good students, and I have no reason to think they'll go away to college and lose their focus and flunk out; but, if they do, we'll not continue to fund failure. If that happens, we'll create a Plan B. If it's that they fail one class, they might have to pay for just that one class during summer school. If they fail everything, it might mean moving home and going to community college, or it might mean taking some time off. It'd depend upon what happened.
Nah, it's never worked like that here. To be a resident for in-state tuition purposes, you must be a permanant, tax paying resident. If you're still financially dependant upon parents in another state, you're not likely to be granted in-state tuition.
In fact, when my daughter received her acceptance for her #1 school, we noticed that she'd been classified as an out-of-state resident. That's clearly wrong. She was born in NC. Both her father and I were born in NC. Both her father and I graduated from NC universities. Both her father and I have work histories in NC stretching back three decades. Her father called to get it straightened out, and he said they grilled him pretty carefully, asking him dates and so forth. He said he felt like they were trying to catch him in a lie.
