Advantages of being a state resident?

[stephenvpr]

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I was recently accepted to West Virginia University. I currently live in New York.

When I apply to med school my gpa will be between 3.3-3.4. I know I know it's low and I may have to do some sort of post-bacc unless I have a great MCAT score. My EC's will be good. Shadowing and clinical experience will be good by the time I graduate (~120 hrs shadowing, ~250 clinical volunteer hours). Plus other non medical EC's will be covered as well.

I wanted some insight as to whether it would be advantageous of me to switch my residency to West Virginia from New York as I will be living there (2 years left until I apply). My ideal situation would be to attend WVU SOM, they state that preference is given to West Virginia residents then secondary preference to WVU graduates.

Since I have lower then average stats I would be happy to get an MD acceptance almost anywhere.

Thanks for the help...

 

[mt2010]

Well, as with most states, West Virginia requires you to live there for 12 consecutive months without your primary purpose being higher education in order to claim residency. This might involve sticking around in WV and working after you graduate for at least a year before applying for medical school. Here are the details of WV's policy for residency determination:

http://adm.wvu.edu/home/residencey_classification/higher_ed_policy_25