OOS

[sunshine02]

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If a school is not OOS friendly but I was born and used to live in that state for 12 years before moving to another state, will the school see this as a tie to their state or will I still be treated as OOS?

 

[claduva94]

It will be seen as a tie. How compelling and influential that tie is will vary.

 

[nwts]

You will still be treated as OOS because ties to the state do not equal IS status. However, those ties to the state will probably make you a more attractive candidate than other OOS candidates with no ties to the state. Nobody can really tell you how much that will help. To make it more concrete, if the school gives 85% of its seats to IS applicants and 15% of its seats to OOS applicants, you'll still be competing with all the other OOS people for one of the seats from the 15%. However, you'll probably have a little bit of and edge, but who knows how big of an edge that is.