How do they determine residency status? If I move and apply... what happens?

[t0bes]

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I live in Canada but I am an American citizen. Effectively, this makes me OOS everywhere I apply to in the States.

I'm not sure it's worth it to move to the US, specifically to a state with some good IS bias, because it would take me at least a year of residency to gain resident status, am I wrong? I know that it works that way with being able to pay the IS rate at medical schools in New York State, which is to say, I know it takes a year of residency to gain OFFICIAL resident status.

Basically, if I were to move on, say... May 1st... and then submit AMCAS in June with my New York state address... would the schools treat me as an in-state applicant? Anybody know?

 

[Ismet]

If it takes a year to establish residency, you will not be a NY resident 1 month after you move there. If you get accepted and then matriculate, they may consider you a NY resident for tuition purposes (since by then you will have been a resident of NY for over a year), but it won't help you in terms of IS/OOS status for applying to med school.

 

[ConfusedChemist]

Still far, far better chances than applying to Canada without having residency in any province.....even if you don't get in-state status

 

[allantois]

When I was applying to college I wasn't yet a state resident; however by the time I matriculated I was. I didn't even consider myself not as a resident when applying, and neither did the state schools.

Just because you are not yet eligible for state benefits (such as in-state tuition) does not mean that you are not a state resident when you have moved to the state with the intentions of living there. Consider if someone was to move from NJ to NY , and they lived in NY the year they were applying; how in the world would they still be a resident of NJ by the time they matriculated if they had been living in NY for the past year. That is just absurd!