Depends on if you are a graduate or undergraduate student. Can you live with relative who is willing to let you sleep in their house and feed you? That will not give you in state tuition, but is one way of avoiding dormitory and boarding (food) fees. If you are graduate student, become a teaching assistant, but that will depend on finding out which faculty members are looking for TA's then applying for the job with either human resources or financial aid or both, since you essentially become half time employee of the university. That will waive out of state tuition so you until you can establish residency. Yes, graduate students can live and do live in dormitories, and often they became residential advisers of a number of floors of an undergraduate dormitory. Again, they are university employees. term by term. Upper class undergraduates do that too.

Undergraduate can apply for Pell grants, which is not a loan, and college work study jobs. No that will NOT waive out of state tuition. A college work study job is essentially a temporary loan, you work for the university , usually below minimum wage for the state, andy pay back the loan because the federal government is also giving the the university federal money to pay back the university. problem is. once you pay back the temporary laon, you no longer have a job in the middle of the spring semester, so any undergraduate who applies for that job can take your place, even if they are a faculty dependent and they just want the job experience. That was what my first jobs were. I've been a library aide 4 times that way, including when I was NOT a faculty dependent but had established residency.

You can apply for any number of scholarships , but you need to talk to the people at financial aid. The requirements for scholarships can vary allover the place, because eccentric alumnae like me who set up scholarships at their alma maters can set the requirements of the scholarship.