My son is a freshman at CU-Boulder with pre-med concentration. Obviously he’s an in-state if he ends up being accepted at and attend the med school in Colorado since we’ve resided in the state for 15 years.
What’s not clear to me is the following scenario: with our 2nd son (rising senior in high school) graduating next year and goes off to college, my wife and I are planning on moving to another state for our retirement. For now, let’s just say, the state we’re going to relocate to for our retirement is AZ. By the time my CU-Boulder son graduates from college, we’d have lived in AZ for 2 years. If my son then gets accepted into a med school in AZ, would he be considered an in-state applicant or an out-of-state? If he’s considered an out-of-state applicant, how long would it then take for him to be considered an in-state? I’m asking these questions in order to figure out how much tuition we’d have to pay as there’s a huge difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition.
You’ll have to look at each school’s website. There is no universal standard.
IWBB is right, you have to carefully read each school in each state’s standard. The same thing happened to us and there came a point when DD had to choose her state and then she had to do her DL & voter registration and all that, but still, we filled out the forms, too, it was based on us & her both. Carefully read the state residency form each medical school would ask for as they can even be different within a state. It’s been many years, but I definitely realized that she could have ended up “in state” for no state at all if we were not careful. More important than tuition is admission, in some states, being a resident is critical for admissions, AZ is open to OOS applicants, but still, about two years before he would start med school, more than a year before he would apply, decide which state he is going to claim for residency, read their forms and ensure he is consistent with that. You might find more info on the SDN forums, I did.
@somemom - Thank you. This is helpful.