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For context, I am a nontrad, currently working a tech career for about 2 years now and considering joining a post-bacc next year. Grew up my entire life in Texas, went to high school in Texas, and my parents still live and own a home in Texas. I still really like Texas but life/work just brought me elsewhere. However, I went to undergrad outside of Texas, worked in NY for a year, and just moved to California this past January 1st. As of now, within a medical school admissions context, I technically don't have official state residency anywhere lol.
I kept my Texas DL just in case I wanted to prove my residency. However, I am starting to realize that technically having a Texas DL doesn't really influence my state residency.
From TMDSAS:
This is California's requirement:
To establish residence, you must be physically present in California with the intent to make California your permanent home, and you must demonstrate by your actions that you have given up your former residence to establish a residence in California. Once you have established your residence in California, you must reside in California for more than one year (366 days) before you will be eligible to be classified as a resident for tuition purposes.
This year around October, I plan on applying to a wide variety of formal post-bacc programs (Scripps, Goucher, etc.). If I get accepted to one, I plan on extending my lease for one month to hit the 366 days and have utilities/rent payments to prove it, and then will move back with my parents in Texas and work remotely to aggressively save money until the program begins again (technically will still be paying CA taxes the entire time).
Regardless, since I will be leaving right after I "establish residency", I will likely not even qualify as being a CA in-state resident once I apply. Unfortunately, living at home is going to be a requirement to afford these programs. However, it might be worth it to at least have ties to the state and maybe attempt to gain residency by getting a DL? Maybe, just maybe, I can still claim residency for CA? Texas, I frankly have no chance.
There is a possibility that the post-bacc I attend will be in CA, but I'm applying all over the country so I can't really count on being in CA.
I'm just getting confused writing all of this. It looks like most likely, I will have no state residency anywhere when I apply which kind of sucks. I MIGHT be able to squeeze a CA residency by some miracle. Any kind soul out there who can help me navigate this mess? Is it worth revoking my Texas DL for a California DL?
I would love to go to med school at either CA or TX, but if I can't get state residency at either it's kind of fighting an uphill battle.
I kept my Texas DL just in case I wanted to prove my residency. However, I am starting to realize that technically having a Texas DL doesn't really influence my state residency.
From TMDSAS:
- Graduated from a Texas high school or received a GED in Texas; and
- Lived in Texas for the 36 months immediately before high school graduation; and
- Lived in Texas continuously for the 12 months immediately preceding the application deadline."
This is California's requirement:
To establish residence, you must be physically present in California with the intent to make California your permanent home, and you must demonstrate by your actions that you have given up your former residence to establish a residence in California. Once you have established your residence in California, you must reside in California for more than one year (366 days) before you will be eligible to be classified as a resident for tuition purposes.
This year around October, I plan on applying to a wide variety of formal post-bacc programs (Scripps, Goucher, etc.). If I get accepted to one, I plan on extending my lease for one month to hit the 366 days and have utilities/rent payments to prove it, and then will move back with my parents in Texas and work remotely to aggressively save money until the program begins again (technically will still be paying CA taxes the entire time).
Regardless, since I will be leaving right after I "establish residency", I will likely not even qualify as being a CA in-state resident once I apply. Unfortunately, living at home is going to be a requirement to afford these programs. However, it might be worth it to at least have ties to the state and maybe attempt to gain residency by getting a DL? Maybe, just maybe, I can still claim residency for CA? Texas, I frankly have no chance.
There is a possibility that the post-bacc I attend will be in CA, but I'm applying all over the country so I can't really count on being in CA.
I'm just getting confused writing all of this. It looks like most likely, I will have no state residency anywhere when I apply which kind of sucks. I MIGHT be able to squeeze a CA residency by some miracle. Any kind soul out there who can help me navigate this mess? Is it worth revoking my Texas DL for a California DL?
I would love to go to med school at either CA or TX, but if I can't get state residency at either it's kind of fighting an uphill battle.