I read in some of responses here that there is small window to change the OOS<->IS when the application is pending. what is the process to make that happen in missouri? I am trying to see if i should get my son to missouri half way thru senior year to be considered in state versus at present OOS? but how do i change the status from OOS to IS on pending application? are there definite steps/department of the school/state that can help?
Putting some more details to make sense
I took job in MO 4 months back but son continues in LA in senior year. MO-CBHE says student’s residence is irrelevant to determine residency, since he is under 21. UMKC residency website says the same but UMKC put my son OOS because he is not graduating from MO-High school. what is the way to fix it?
https://www.umkc.edu/residency/
UMKC petition process says, i can’t petition before he is accepted, but UMKC BS/MD admission is based on IS/OOS(65 seats for IS, 35 seats OOS including regional 25). my s has to compete for smaller no of seats when we know for sure, the whole family is going to be in MO but for son’s senior year. all i am trying is to get him IS status since I believe, he deserves it. I have lease, bank statement, pay stub, offer letter that tells i am in MO.
I read in some of responses here that there is small window to change the OOS<->IS when the application is pending. what is the process to make that happen in missouri? I am trying to see if i should get my son to missouri half way thru senior year to be considered in state versus at present OOS? but how do i change the status from OOS to IS on pending application? are there definite steps/departments of the school/state that can help? Thanks for your kind inputs!
You can’t. The BA/MD program uses the location of the student’s high school of record to determine eligibility for in-state status for ADMISSION purposes. Your son may be able to petition for in-state status for TUITION purposes if he’s accepted by the program. In-state status determination for admission and tuition are two completely separate processes.
The only way your son would be considered instate for admission purposes was if he had completed at least one full year of high school in and graduated from a Missouri high school.
You may be right @WayOutWestMom.
I am putting some snippets below from umkc
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https://www.umkc.edu/residency/
How residency is initially determined
- First time college students graduating from a non-Missouri high school will be classified as a non-Missouri resident until proof of permanent Missouri residency is provided.
- Students who have not lived in their qualifying region for at least 12 months prior to applying to UMKC will be considered non-residents.
- Any student who has a previous record as a non-Missouri resident will be considered a non-resident until that student submits a petition and it is approved.
- The residency of students under the age 21 can be determined by where their parents’ live.
Para 1
Students under 21 who are dependent on their parents will be eligible if their parents can prove 12 months of domicile in the appropriate region or that they relocated here for retirement or employment. Dependent students are not eligible if their parents live in a state other than Kansas or Missouri.
From above snippets,
1 tells me as long as S graduates from Missouri or provide “Proof of permanent MO residency” he can be in-state. I am trying to find out what is proof needed? do i need my son in MO high school next week? or do I need to provide some documents ?
4 tells me, under age 21, the residency comes from parent
Para 1 tells me if the parent move due to employment, dependent student qualifies for IS. on contrary, the dependent student’s presence by itself, does not determine residency.
CBHE-MO also states, dependent student’s presence in state, does not determine residency. That might be purely for tuition.
On personal note, I got job 2 months back,
It would not be cakewalk for me to move whole family without doing some basic ground work (new home, finding right schools for both kids, working spouse getting another job) at new location after settling in new job. I hope, I am not being lazy 
The small print in the header at the top of that page clearly states that it’s in reference to in-state tuition eligibility–
–not admission criteria.
The determination of eligibility for in-state tuition is a completely different --and separate–process from determining in-state status for admission purposes.
Currently your son is not a Missouri resident because he is not currently living in Missouri (and never has), his current permanent home address is not in Missouri and he is not currently attending and never has attended a Missouri high school.
Most states require the parent/parents live in the new state for a full calendar year prior to college admission to be considered in-state and will ask for proof in the form of a state tax return from the previous year (or prior year federal tax return listing the new state as the parent’s permanent residence).
Why would you go through this song and dance during the application process? Your kid might not get accepted to this OOS program. Most applicants don’t get accepted…even instate. Then what?
Thanks for your input @WayOutWestMom and @thumper1
Thanks @thumper1. I do appreciate your inputs.
Just to keep things in perspective, my family, for real, is moving to Missouri since my spouse has an offer as of Sept 2019 and I have a job as of aug 2019. We are not establishing the residency to meet college requirements, as such. It is natural move.
I am wondering what happens to families who get new jobs in the middle of their kid’s final year
Families that move in the middle of an academic year are often not residents of any state for med school admission purposes.
It happens to newly graduated college students who are applying to med school too.
It usually takes a full calendar year to establish a state residency for med school admissions purposes. (Washington state requires 3 years of in-state residency w/ proof and Massachusetts requires 5 years in the state.)
Medical schools are allowed to establish admission rules that favor long time state residents over newer ones. You need to remember that the primary purpose of state public med schools is to provide physicians who will stay and practice medicine in the state after they’ve finished med school. They’ve found the best way to do that is to pick students who have grown up in the state, graduated from an in-state high school and have immediate family members living in the state.
Med school admissions is all about the needs of the medical school and zero about the wants/desires/needs of the applicant.
You mean 2020, right? 2019 has passed in those months.
Once you get to Missouri, you will need to establish residency there…typically this takes 12 months. If your son or daughter enrolls in a public university in fall 2020, they will be an out of state student.
For fall 2021, you would need to petition for a residency change for tuition purposes.
I don’t know the requirements in Missouri…some states make it easy to do this…and others don’t allow a change at all if you originally enrolled as an OOS student.
So…check the requirements to establish residency in Missouri at the college your kiddo is interested in.
Hi all - I’m an infrequent poster who is primarily on CC as a parent researching colleges, but am also an MD who has been on the admissions committee for my state medical school.
FWIW: at my state school, state of residency is taken at face value for the purposes of admission. It sounds like this varies state by state.
This came up on one of the applications I reviewed last year. I didn’t think an applicant should be considered a resident of our state despite his naming us as his state of residency. He had grown up in another state, attended undergrad in that same state, had very recently moved to our state, and had no other ties here.
However, I was told by our dean of admissions that since he could only declare one state of residency on his AMCAS application and had thus forfeited his admission advantage in what I would have considered to be his ‘real’ home state, he should be considered by us to be in-state applicant with no asterisks applied.
I have no idea how residency status is defined for tuition purposes: as others have posted, this may be a completely different standard.
Does UKMC combined admissions go through AMCAS?