Community College Zones in Houston?? WTF? Need help

and they're saying she can't attend at the HCC campus right at the beltway and I-10??

 

wow...which one are they saying she's zoned for?

 

I think that's what he's asking.

That does suck. ACC didn't have that (as far as I could tell).

 

my hope is the lady made a mistake. i've never heard of that before.

 

what are you? a lawyer?

 

It's crazy, I took a Summer class at HCC once and it is located in the Alief campus on Bissonnet and Eldridge, yet because I live in Alief which has it's own school district, I was considered out of district and had to pay much much more. Wherever an HCC is located, you are only in district if the schools where you live are HISD.

 

Just find a friend who lives in the area and use their address. I had friends that did that all the time at ACC.

Make sure they get their mail from the school though. I moved once and had my mail returned to sender for some reason from ACC in Austin, and they dropped me from my freaking classes because they assumed I moved out of district.

 

My friend is going through the same thing right now. He is having to pay double what he normally would because they classify him as "out of district". He told me it has to do with how long you have lived in the colleges district. If you have lived in the same district as the school for a year then you become "in district" and tuition goes back to normal. Sounds like she has moved in the last year to a new district (the one she is currently trying to enroll in).

 

http://www.hccs.edu/students/TuitionCosts.html

Residents of the Houston Community College System (Houston ISD, Stafford MSD and Missouri City) are considered as in-district students for fee purposes. To be a resident of the district, the student must be a resident of the State of Texas for 12 months and must live in the district. Questions concerning residency requirements should be referred to the Campus Admissions Office or the registrar/director.

 

I've had to deal with HCC in the past about something similar. Their excuse to me was that I out of the Houston city limits and in Harris County instead. So for the next year I changed my address to my aunt's nail salon store instead.

 

A buddy of mine was going to ACC while living in San Marcos. He had the same problem, but just paid the money.

Apparently there's some type of taxpayer funding that goes into community colleges, and those who don't generate property taxes that channel into that particular school don't get the discount.

 

To answer your question Drewdog, she is probably zoned for the Town and Country location.

 

from the first post.

 

She lives OUTSIDE of Houston, or in a Houston zip code that is not of the HCC district.

Try North Harris community Colleges, like Cy-Fair College. I live in Katy and even though the campus you were probably mentioning (not the one in Town & Country, but the one behind FRY and I-10) is out of district for us, so my wife attends Cy-Fair College. The opposite side must go to San Jac.