<p>After scanning over listing of admissions data for various colleges, I noticed that states medical schools have several times higher admissions rate for in-state applicants than out-of-state applicants. So this is my dilemma. I'm a Californian resident but I'm leaving to attend Northwestern in Illinois. If I were to apply to a University of California Medical school, would I count as an out-of-state applicant even though I'm only at Northwestern for college, and that my parents still work and pay taxes in California? Also, in that case, would I count as an in-state applicant for Illinois Medical schools even though I'm only there for school and probably won't pay taxes/have income?</p>
<p>Any input would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>You will retain your CA residency.</p>
<p>How much of a role does residency play in public schools admissions. Some of the data I have seen showed lower admissions standards for alot of midwestern and southern schools. By how much are those standards raised for OOS applicants.</p>
<p>I am particularly interested in this because my state has 0 public medical schools.</p>
<p>being from cali will definately help in getting into public med schools, esp. UCSF which is nearly impossible to get into OOS</p>
<p>That's a relief. Thanks guys!</p>
<p>UCSF is probably the UC which demonstrates the second-least in-state favortism, with UCLA being the only "friendlier" one.</p>
<p>Of course, UCSF is harder to get into than UC Irvine overall, but I would argue that the discrepancy betwen OOS and IS applicants would be higher at UC Irvine than at UCSF.</p>
<p>And, Jerr, I think this should not be a relief for you. CA medical schools are notoriously brutal. Getting an Illinois residency would probably have been a good thing.</p>
<p>bluedevilmike,
I've heard talk about how Californian residencies are extremely competitive. I'm concurrently only a senior in high school so I'm in the midst of figuring out this whole medical school business and I'm not exactly sure how the medical school one attends affects one's eventual residency choice?</p>
<p>The problem we're running into here is that there's two different "residency" terms floating around.</p>
<p>Until otherwise specified, in this thread we are always talking about your "residency" as in the state that medical schools will consider your home.</p>
<p>My point is that it is better to have a CA home-state status ("residency") if you are set on going to a CA medical school, but if your goal is to go to medical school overall, you would probably have been better served by IL residency.</p>
<p>If you're a top applicant, there's no better place to have residency than California. If you're a borderline applicant (3.6/30), then you'd probably want residency somewhere else.</p>