@plopsun - there is nothing inherently wrong with change and clearly Baylor needed some changes, it just makes for some possible issues in any number of areas (such as staff changes, alumni gifting which funds spending, disgruntled professors because they may or may not like the direction the new president wants to take the school)
Gainful employment is not a student job such as one given as part of a financial aid package.
(12) Gainful employment–Employment intended to provide an income to a
person or allow a person to avoid the expense of paying another person to perform the
tasks (as in child care) that is sufficient to provide at least one-half of the individual’s
tuition, fees and living expenses as determined in keeping with the institution’s student
financial aid budget or that represents an average of at least twenty hours of
employment per week. A person who is self-employed or who is living off his/her
earnings may be considered gainfully employed for purposes of establishing residency,
as may a person whose primary support is public assistance. Employment conditioned
on student status, such as work study, the receipt of stipends, fellowships, or research
or teaching assistantships does not constitute gainful employment.
In certain families it is not unheard of for parents to move where a child is attending college and many people have jobs now that are portable, there is this thing called the internet, they can work from anywhere!
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Really?!? There’s such a thing called the Internet? And people can work from their computers?
@mom2collegekids - I need to look for some of that internet “gainful employment” because I clearly have too much time on my hands if I can wile away my afternoon looking up the definition of gainful employment for a complete stranger.
"A citizen, national or a permanent resident of the United States, who is independent 18 years of age or over and who has lived in Texas for 12 consecutive months and has been gainfully employed within the state prior to enrollment in an institution of higher education is entitled to be classified as a resident of Texas.
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This may be a problem for the OP. Sounds like not only would he not be in Texas the year before enrolling, but he nor his parent will not be employed there.
I wonder if Texas will consider the state where the dad is living to be the “home state”?
@plopsun Do your parents file a joint tax return? Where does your dad live? In what state does your dad (and probably your mom) file state taxes?
@mom2collegekids my dad lives in another country, im hoping that me or my mom can get a job.
@labegg “that is sufficient to provide at least one-half of the individual’s
tuition, fees and living expense”
does that mean the medical school’s tuition or the college’s tuition, cause i’m getting a scholarship to a texas college
I think usually you are supposed to plan to live permanently in that state and work there and support yourself. Or if your parent supports you then that parent needs to live and work and pay taxes (and vote and have a drivers license from) there too (but isn’t TX a state without state tax?).
They frown on moving there for the purpose of attending college. If you start college as an OOS student and then want to be reclassified as a resident then you might have trouble if your dad lives elsewhere and he supports you and your mom.
Hopefulky OP doesn’t think Rice, Emory, Penn or UT are targets, since due to selectivity they’re all de facto reaches…
Trinity, Southwestern, and St Edwards have a good record of being supportive for premeds. OP would need to show interest to call them ‘safeties’. Texas Tech is less supportive but has more research opportunities. St Edwards is noted for Hispanics going to Med school, it offers good scholarships, and it’s located in Austin which is an awesome city for students.
Op: Basically if you want to be a TX resident you and your parent need to work there and pay taxes there, and you’d need to work in Texas for a full year before you start college.
Since OP says he is likely NM he doesn’t need to worry about residency for UTD, residency only comes into play for medical school - that’s what he needs to look into.
ok I am still being obtuse… OP is a rising senior and asking where to go, but already has “has many scholarships to many schools”, most applications for scholarship and applications for admissions for class of 2017 haven’t even opened yet and NMF haven’t been named yet either (I could be wrong on that because I don’t follow NMF results)? Still don’t get it.
For PM track Baylor is a better place. UTD has tons of Asian doctor wanna be and oppurtunities are snatched pretty quickly. Baylor is smaller, private and more intimate, offers better guidance and oppurtunities. It also gives you a proper college experience which UTD lacks.
There are changes going on but mostly related to athletes and sexual assault issues. Board of directors and regents have a pretty good grip on school. Baylor’s unofficial affiliations with medical, nursing, dental schools and hospitals all over Texas are a good introduction to a well connected network for health professionals.
Waco is ho hum but it’s on an upward track and very affordable. If you are an Asian then among a sea of Asians, you’ll not stand out at UTD at all but you’ll feel more at home there.
thanks for the reply, I think this way about Baylor too. I’m asian but I’m used to schools with alot of white people, my high school having 85 percent whites :0
