For medical school? The public tuition for state schools differs greatly between out-of-state and in-state students. How easy is it to/has anyone established residency in a state after getting accepted to medical school there and proceeding to save greatly on tuition?
Has anyone here established state residency after moving out of state?
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MOST states say you have to live there, work, have a drivers license, etc. for at least a year before you can establish residency. Usually, school is not considered a good enough reason to establish residency. So, if you were to get in somewhere this October, you would need to defer a year in order to have in-state tuition (so you could live there and work a full-year before you actually started classes). Some states are different, and say as long as you've lived there a year (even for just school) you can be a resident - so, you'd pay OOS tuition for year 1 and then in-state for your last three.
I'm sure most people don't mind changing their driver's license, bank account location, voter registration, etc etc. I know I wouldn't, especially to save a lot more money. Just wondering how easy it is to prove residency when it comes to proving your independent of your parents.
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As long as you fulfill the guidelines stated in their residency classification policies, at least BEFORE you get accepted (if not the whole year prior to that), since they do determine your residency before making admissions decisions. I really don't know about doing that after you get accepted. I was first classified as out-of-state, then (still early, like August) during the application process we moved in-state. I appealed for and was granted an in-state residency; I of course had more than enough papers to back it up (spouse got in-state tuition... new state license, apartment lease). So, I had clearly not even been here for a year yet. I think it comes down to having all the necessary documents to prove that you reside in-state, regardless of whether you will go to med school there.
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In the majority of states you can't have moved there for educational purposes to get in-state tuition. That way they can stick you with OOS tuition for 4 years.
As far as proving your independence, the paper work I filled out all that was needed was to check a box saying "I am supporting myself" and that was it.
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For UMASS Medical School you must have been a resident for 5 years. No getting around that one for me. 🙂
