<p>There is no requirement that med student has to be NY State resident at start of program to get in-state tuition for last 3 years. </p>
<p>Here some excerpts from SUNY school of Optometry</p>
<p>The State University of New York, State College of Optometry does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, national origin, age, or residence in its admissions policy</p>
<p>*Out-of-state citizens may be eligible for in-state resident tuition after their first year, the average tuition for the four years, based upon current rates, would then be $20,320 per year.</p>
<p>Oh, yeah, I’m so glad to pay some of the highest taxes in the country to educate everyone else’s kids.</p>
<p>When I read that link, it doesn’t look like it’s easy to get residency once someone is a student. </p>
<p>However, the issue was about getting admitted to med school while not being a state resident…not whether some can become residents while they are in med school (and it doesn’t look like that is easy to do, either).</p>
<p>Acceptance and interview data will be found in the MSAR (which I don’t have right now. D1 has it.) It can also be found on the USNWR medical school subscription website.</p>
<p>The important data to look at is at the interview numbers. How many in state were interview and the percentage of those who were later admitted vs. the number of OOS students who interviewed and were later admitted.</p>
<p>IIRC, both the SUNYs had a moderate bias towards interviewing and accepting instate applicants. D1 seriously considered applying to the SUNYs since the OOS “penalty” is not as bad as some other places.</p>
<p>And it’s not getting residency once one has been accepted–it’s all about getting accepted in the first place. Students who apply while still attending college–which is more than half of all applicants–have to use their parents home state as their legal state of residence.</p>
<p>Way out, any “moderate” bias that the NY state med schools may have toward OOS is far less than what you say other states impose – which is a huge role. </p>
<p>As to how hard it is for an emacipated studend to become a NY Resident – these are the factors - </p>
<p>Factors relevant to a determination of domicile include:
a.residence of parents, spouse and children.
b.place of voter registration.
c.residence for personal income tax purposes.
d.financial independence, business pursuits, employment and income sources.
e.situs of motor vehicle and other personal property registration.
f.situs of real and personal property.
g.state issuing driver’s license</p>
<p>Seems pretty easy to me. No age requirement. No lenght of time. No rule if you are OOS when you start, you stay OOS. Is that common? I dont think so. </p>
<p>In short, any listing of state of residence, imho, of med students (other than possibly first year) in NY schools is likely to include many kids who by most other states standards are not state resident. </p>
<p>And your comment that the NYS OOS differential is less than other places is also evidence of the SUNYs continued and serious failure to put residents first - at least to the extent other states do. OOS differential is not a penalty. Its a reflection that state taxpayers support these institutions. And should be questioning that support when the SUNYs fail to put residents first at the same way other states do.</p>