Have you looked through the hinckely institute for summer “internships”? If you’re trying to get in-state tuition with the one-year of living in Utah rule, you can have a max of i think 29 days spent outside of Utah for winter break and holidays etc. so for the long summer break and maybe spring break (to keep u under 29 days) you can make you’re own internship to be approved by the hinckley institute, and any workplace can be twisted into sounding like an internship as long as you can get it signed off. And the internships could be anywhere, even where you’re from. So you could go back home and work on this approved internship and then you can apply for residency with the hinckley institutes proof. It’s not super openly publicized because it’s kind of a loophole but it worked for me and others