What to do?

[Nerdeka]

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I live in Chicago. Significant other lives in Georgia with kids. We want to spend the rest of our lives together. If I need to go to school in Illinois, he'd move. But I don't like that given his kids' family is in Georgia (he has primary custody, but still).

I noticed two schools there accept 100% in state residents only.
This is an issue given my grades are not the best. I did do a year of post-bacc with a 4.0.
I currently work as a research assistant (clinical) which is a great job for my application.

What to do? Do I leave a great job/opportunity/resource for med school to establish residency?

 

[HomeSkool]

Do I leave a great job/opportunity/resource for med school to establish residency?

If this is the man you want to spend the rest of your life with, then yes. Or tolerate four more years apart. Encouraging him to tear his kids away from their family for your benefit would be incredibly immoral and selfish.

If you'd like to hear this opinion from someone else, just call 1-800-DRLAURA. Seriously, don't do that to those kids. You have no business tearing them away from their family for your career plans.

 

[Nerdeka]

If this is the man you want to spend the rest of your life with, then yes. Or tolerate four more years apart. Encouraging him to tear his kids away from their family for your benefit would be incredibly immoral and selfish.

If you'd like to hear this opinion from someone else, just call 1-800-DRLAURA. Seriously, don't do that to those kids. You have no business tearing them away from their family for your career plans.

Trust me, I know. He's the only one bringing it up.

 

[Nerdeka]

How long does it take to establish residency?

 

[HomeSkool]

Trust me, I know. He's the only one bringing it up.

Then give him a gut check and tell him a guy who does that to his kids is not a guy you want to be with.

How long does it take to establish residency?

12 months in the state of Georgia.

 

[Goro]

I live in Chicago. Significant other lives in Georgia with kids. We want to spend the rest of our lives together. If I need to go to school in Illinois, he'd move. But I don't like that given his kids' family is in Georgia (he has primary custody, but still).

I noticed two schools there accept 100% in state residents only.
This is an issue given my grades are not the best. I did do a year of post-bacc with a 4.0.
I currently work as a research assistant (clinical) which is a great job for my application.

What to do? Do I leave a great job/opportunity/resource for med school to establish residency?

State schools are very likely to reward reinvention. Hence MCG and Mercer (which take very few, if any OOSers) are on your side.

Then add in PCOM-GA.

 

[Nerdeka]

I heard it was extremely hard to establish residency with Mercer.

Guys this is such a difficult situation.
1. Apply in June and hope for the best?
2. Wait for job to "end" (though it really only does for one boss) in August and move to Georgia? This won't be a year by Next June though?
3. Find job ASAP in Georgia, say **** it to these doctors and move to Georgia by June to establish residency?

 

[pharmd0522]

Mercer Med will NOT take students that are not long-established GA residents. This usually means born there. You have to have residency and signed affidavits.