State of Residency help

[Cubsfan4400]

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Hello, I'm looking for guidance for selecting my state of residency for applying to allopathic schools roughly a year from now.

My parents have just moved from Illinois to Florida, and I currently go to a state school in Missouri. I am wanting to switch my state of residency from Illinois to Florida so I would have a better shot of getting into Florida schools. I was wondering if it would make sense to do this. I don't know if schools would see that I changed my state of residency to Florida the previous year and whether or not that would be seen as a negative.

Thank you for any help!

 

[gyngyn]

IL matriculates 24.9% of her IS applicants, 15.5% go OOS.
FL matriculates 22.6% of her IS appliacants, 12.5% get in elsewhere.
If you were considered IS for MO, you would have a significant advantage in that 31.6% of her IS applicants matriculate IS!
https://www.aamc.org/download/321466/data/factstable5.pdf

 

[vellez]

IL matriculates 24.9% of her IS applicants, 15.5% go OOS.
FL matriculates 22.6% of her IS appliacants, 12.5% get in elsewhere.
If you were considered IS for MO, you would have a significant advantage in that 31.6% of her IS applicants matriculate IS!
https://www.aamc.org/download/321466/data/factstable5.pdf

Wow, that is a really interesting table! I had no idea it even existed!

 

[GrapesofRath]

https://www.aamc.org/download/321442/data/factstable1.pdf

This is important information as well.

Oklahoma matriculates a higher percentage of applicants in state than Texas. Anybody would choose Texas over Oklahoma if they had a choice between the two for state of residency. Key point here is knowing how to interpret data and the limitations of each set(and what I linked above has plenty of limitations as well).

It also matters what kind of applicant you are. Illinois has 3 lower tier schools that get tons of applications in Rosalind Rush and Loyola. Rush and Loyola do show some in-state preference but also take more than half their applicants OOS and hence are recommended to many with average stats. That leaves one school in Illinois that gives all of Illinois in-state preference and that is U of Ill.

A key question to ask is what part of Illinois are you from. If you are from southern or central parts of it you can apply to Southern Illinois which only takes IL residents. That's a big advantage to have and gives you two schools instead of one.

Florida has 6 schools with significant in-state preference: FIU, FAS, Florida State, Florida UCF and USF. Note that some of these schools are still very competitive such as Florida. FSU is the one with the IS preference along the lines of Southern Illinois with 97.5% in-state. Bottom line, the type of applicant you are also matters. Florida has one of the highest rates of applicants that didn't matriculate anywhere at 65% which is part of the reason why the % of applicants that matriculate IS is low.

 

[Cubsfan4400]

I'm going to guess the Illinois numbers may be a bit skewed since Southern Illinois University ONLY accepts Illinois residents. I'm really hoping to get into a Florida school, but any school is better than no school. I'm just wondering if changing my residency will hurt my chances of getting into an in state school because I'll only have been a Florida resident for only a year at my time of application.

 

[Doug Underhill]

Table 5 is MD-only, right? It does not include osteopathic schools?

 

[Cubsfan4400]

I am from Southern Illinois so I know I would have preference at SIU. I'm really wanting to go to a school in Florida for family reasons. However I know how competitive the process of applying is and you probably don't choose where you go just where you get in. I'm just wondering if I change my residency to Florida if I'll be treated differently at Florida schools than other in state residents since I will only have been a resident for a year and attend a Missouri State school.

I am not considering any schools at Missouri at this point in time.

 

[gyngyn]

[QUOTE="Doug Underhill, post: 16662848, member: 421017"]Table 5 is MD-only, right? It does not include osteopathic schools?[/QUOTE]
That's right.