KRS 164.475: Allocation of enrollment positions by state schools of medicine and

dentistry -- Competitive selection of entering class medical, dental, or law

students.

(1) The boards of trustees of the state colleges and universities offering degree

programs in me dicine or dentistry shall allocate seventy percent (70%) of the

enrollment positions for the entering class each year, equally among each of the

Kentucky Supreme Court districts, using the population of each Supreme Court

district as determined by the last decennial federal census to determine that district's

proportion of the positions, and shall assign these apportioned enrollment positions

for each district to those applicants who are legal residents in that Supreme Court

district.

(2) Fifteen percent (1 5%) of the remaining positions shall be allocated to the state at -

large and assigned to applicants who are legal residents at any place within the State

of Kentucky.

(3) Any qualified legal resident shall have a preference in securing an assignment to a

position when compared to a nonresident.

(4) The total number of nonresidents assigned positions shall not exceed fifteen percent

(15%) of the total entering class enrollment positions assigned for any school year.

(5) The selection of entering class medical , dental, or law students shall be

accomplished competitively with due consideration being given scholastic

standings, recommendations of the pre -professional advisory committees of the

various schools where the applicants pursue the pre-professional academic program,

and their performance on any required admission test, and any other procedures that

deal fairly with the applicant group as a whole.