What would you do to save a bundle on tuition? Choose the community college? Spend hours scouring for scholarships?

Get married?

That's what some out-of-state students are doing at the University of California, Berkeley, according to a Bay Citizen article in the New York Times.

It costs out-of-state students an additional $22,000 a year to attend the public university. But if you marry, you can be deemed independent of your parents. From there, "gaining in-state tuition is a breeze."

The article gives this example, but warns that it's probably an uncommon one: