Out of state students

[DoctorSaab]

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I heard it is harder for a out of state student to get in a different state school? What makes it harder?

What about someone who is a resident of some state but is still considered an international student?

 

[pumpkins90]

State schools receive their funding from the state-level government. Therefore, they will give preference to residents of their own state. That is why you also see the differences in the amount of tuition between residents and non-residents. At OSU they do take out of state students, but the majority are from utah due to contractual agreements. To answer your second question, every school as what their own requirments as to what is considered a state resident. You can probably find the info on the school's web page.

 

[pumpkins90]

Every school has their own requirements as to what is considered a state resident. (sorry for the misspelling its 2 am)

 

[FMLizard]

When state schools take a large number of out of staters, they tend to watch them pack up and leave the day they graduate. Thus, taxpayers subsidized the training of a dentist that will never serve in their communities.

UMich and Michigan is a good example of this. They take the most out-of-state students of any state school, mostly from California. The state wonders why the Upper Peninsula is a major dental shortage area, bordering on crisis proportions. It's not like those CA kids are going to set up a practice in the U.P. They graduate and bolt back to Cal, or set up in Detroit.