State Residency Question!

[Sjw3378]

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I am a NC resident, but I attend a private university in NY. When it comes to applying to med school would I still be considered a NC resident? Thank you for any advice!

 

[Skittsie13]

You literally wrote "I am an NC resident." You will be considered as a NC resident.

The NY schools might be more willing to offer IIs since you have a tie to their state, but you would only be an in-state applicant for NC schools.

 

[21Rush12]

NY lets you have in state tuition after a year if I'm not mistaken and NC is much tougher. Make sure in the apps to NY schools you mention the ties to the area. Could be worth calling them to find out what their requirements are for residency. They may choose to consider you in state if you meet the criteria even if your AMCAS residency is NC. This would be best case scenario, and this was based on my own experience having one foot in NC and the other in NY.


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[LizzyM]

http://www.northcarolina.edu/sites/default/files/documents/state_residence_classification_manual.pdf

 

[TX_AK]

Where are you registered to vote?
Have you looked at NC residency rules?

 

[Sjw3378]

I am registered to vote in NC. I wanted to keep my residency there because of the advantage UNC gives you. But someone had told me that I could be considered a NY resident. Just wanted to check and see what other people thought.

 

[colbgw02]

I am registered to vote in NC. I wanted to keep my residency there because of the advantage UNC gives you. But someone had told me that I could be considered a NY resident. Just wanted to check and see what other people thought.

You're a North Carolina resident. Being out-of-state as a full-time undergraduate student won't change your residency unless you go out of your way to change it, which would probably also mean that no one else is claiming you as a dependent on their taxes.

As others have alluded to, there are different rules about state residency for random citizen XYZ versus someone looking to qualify for in-state tuition. Some universities can and will hold you to whatever your status was at the time of enrollment, even if you establish domicile and eventually become a resident of that state in every other sense of the word.