Can I be in-state ?

[nojuhyun]

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I had lived in Texas for 3 years and paid taxes at those days.
And I moved to Florida. Now I go to university of Florida as Florida resident.
My question is that, can I declare as a Texas resident when I apply to dental school in Texas using my previous resident history ?

 

[notin]

i'm not a lawyer or anything, but if you have established yourself as a florida resident, then you need to re-establish yourself as a texas resident. googling tells me that generally speaking you need to live in texas without attending school for a year in order to do that, but you might want to look further into just what would suffice.

 

[RynestoneCowboy]

texas is a little tricky when it comes to being in-state. i grew up in texas, and lived there until i went to college. i decided to take a gap year between undergrad and dental school, and i got a job at an office at my school. i applied through TMDSAS for the texas schools, and it asks you a lot of questions about your residency status in order to determine if you're in-state or not. i was deemed in-state there, but a few weeks later i got a letter from TMDSAS that basically said that because i didn't "reestablish my ties to the state" by returning after i graduated, i may or may not be seen as a resident once i matriculated. i got to be in-state for the application process, but they said they couldn't guarantee that i would be in-state once it came time to pay tuition. 😕

in the end it didn't really matter cuz i ended up choosing to go out-of-state for school (plus i haven't even heard back from the one TX school i decided to interview at...)

hope that helps