<p>I am a Canadian citizen, but I have been living in California for the past 6 years and am now applying to college here. Am i considered an international student? I don't have my green card yet (even after 6 years...) but I am legally allowed to work in the US and have my EAD. I know under UC system I am considered an in-state applicant since I own a house in California and have been paying taxes here for over 3 years. I did some research on these schools and am getting conflicting results. There were people like me who were considered domestic students, but on some college's website (ex. Stanford) it says an international student is defined as someone who is not a US citizen or permanent resident. It seems pretty clear on what they call an international but there have been a few, like I mentioned above, who are Canadian citizens but have lived in the US for 4 years and were considered domestic applicant. I really only care about Stanford since it is my dream school and other top schools in the US (ex. Harvard) define international students as students not studying in the US, so any help will be appreciated.</p>
<p>I would recommend calling the Admissions Office and seeing their take on it, but if Stanford’s website is as clearcut as you say, then you would be applying as International since you’re not officially a US citizen.</p>
<p>There are two different things you are confusing here: 1) Whether you should apply for admission using the forms for domestic vs. for international students, and 2) in-state vs. out of state tuition at UCs. I think they are completely separate issues. Also, I think it is not true that “I am considered an in-state applicant since I own a house in California and have been paying taxes here for over 3 years”; people under certain immigrant statuses cannot be considered resident no matter how long they’ve been here; other statuses can – it really depends on your status.</p>
<p>Also, since you are posting in the Stanford forum, I just looked at the Stanford admissions site, and they say the application for international and domestic is the same. So I don’t really understand why this is an issue at all.</p>
<p>Stanford is need-aware for international students and only reserves a certain amount of seats in its class for international students. I would be at a great disadvantage if I was to apply as an international vs if i were to apply as a domestic student. For example I read that MIT had an admittance rate of 0.5% for international students, which is crazy imo.</p>
<p>The “I am considered an in-state applicant since I own a house in California and have been paying taxes here for over 3 years” is regarding UC’s consideration of who is in-state and who is considered out of state or international. They put down specific criteria than an applicant has to meet to be considered instate if they do not have a citizenship or green card, so thats that.</p>
<p>As an international student admitted to stanford I would think that you would be considered a foreign application because of your citizenship and green card status. I go to a school here in the US but I still count as international to all schools.</p>
<p>Were you a Canadian or Mexican citizen by any chance?^</p>
<p>Hi withtheflow! I saw that you messaged me about my domestic status despite being Canadian, but I didn’t have enough posts to message you back and I couldn’t figure out how to send an email (really sorry! ironically, I think this is my 15th post…)</p>
<p>I’m considered domestic because I have american citizenship in addition to my Canadian citizenship. From what I can tell, all of my classmates who applied to Stanford and only had Canadian citizenship were considered as internationals (and were subject to Stanford’s need aware policies). </p>
<p>However, it might be a little bit different in your case if you qualify as a permanent resident. I agree with thehaakun; you should probably call the admissions office or the financial aid office.</p>
<p>Thanks for taking the time to reply to my PM! Yea i guess all i can do now is ask them and hope for the best. Being an international after living here for 6 years sucks lol. But thanks for the response, i appreciate it!</p>
<p>I wasnt canadian or mexican but i got in so its doable.</p>