<p>Are you a US citizen? or do you have a green card?</p>
<p>M2CK. </p>
<p>What is the relevance of your questions to the OP’s question. It seems the thread relates to residency for tuition purposes and doesn’t matter whether one is a citizen or PR. Am I missing something?</p>
<p>I actually do not know how relevant it is between applicant’s US citizen/resident status or his state resident status and the ease or difficulty of gaining the acceptance to a med school. I once learned that at least for the college application cycle, only the state residency, not necessarily the US residency, is all that matters in Texas. But this could be changed depending on the policy at a given time.</p>
<p>But this part I know: Being a non-US citizen or non-US-resident will give the applicant a big hardship just because he is unable to get the federal loans to get through the med school. But since there are no lack of overseas students whose families have a deep pocket these days, these students have no trouble being full pay students. </p>
<p>DS has seen quite a few students from a very well-off family. He once jokingly said a particular student (who is a US citizen though) can enjoy his life no matter which city he chooses to live and which job he chooses to have after graduation (or not take any job at all.) He did not care what his major is in college either. Such a student usually would not be a premed though.</p>