Chance me please, im desperate!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>hi all, i hope this post is neither too obnoxious nor too underachieved (depending on the reader)-- the aim of this thread stems purely out of a curiosity which hasnt been handled well by my school counselor or any college guidance officer. Here are my stats:</p>

<p>indian female, born and raised in the US, dual citizen of india</p>

<p>SAT: havent taken them yet, aiming +2200
SATII: 740 bio, wont show. will take math II, chemistry, econ, us history...
APs:
Bio 5
Us gov. and pol: 5
predicted:
AP Chem:5
Micro/Macro: 4/5
Physics: 4/5
AB calc: 4/5
English lit and lang: both 4?</p>

<p>ECs:
internship during the school year at a lab doing cancer research, i plan to write a review or paper.
volunteering at a hostpital
Feature writer for the school paper, will be section editor next year.
president of medical club: fundraisers, volunteering and such
chair/ director of community service of DECA: more fundraisers and whatnot
soccer, violin, indian dance</p>

<p>GPA: expect to have 4 B's on my transcript by the end of high school-- all in non maths, non science related subjects (in fact, 1 in english, 1 in french 5, 2 in AP english)</p>

<p>to be honest, i know im not the top of the top. AT ALL. but i am very focused on medicine (undergrad) and have committed my efforts thus.</p>

<p>please let me know where you think i have a chance so i have a good idea of what to expect. thanks! </p>

<p>ps. if anyone has any clue about UK uni's, i know the qualifications and stats and all (i think) but any idea as to where i would get in for medicine undergrad?</p>

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<p>What is your home state? Do you need financial aid? What is your ranking in HS?</p>

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<p>no ranking, MD as my home state, no financial aid</p>

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<p>Studying medicine at Oxbridge is near impossible for American applicants. (That’s all I know as far as the UK goes) However, I bet it’s doable at some of the other unis such as Edinburgh or Leeds.</p>

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<p>i’ve been doing some looking into UK schools as well. apparently AP Scores are pretty big in the factoring of it. oxbridge at least doesn’t care about EC’s for the most part. they are very focused on stats. so i guess the AP’s are decided already though u don’t know them, and the SAT you should really work on. wanna chance me?</p>

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<p>Are you planning on returning to the U.S. to practice medicine? I am an MD who graduated from Drexel University School of Medicine and while I am aware that in some countries medicine is studied at the undergraduate level that is not the case in the United States. All American medical schools that I am aware of require earning at least a bachelors degree before you can begin medical school. I realize that this adds at least four years to a prospective doctor’s education but American medical schools are convinced that the undergraduate education in a field other than medicine provides an experience that makes people better doctors. It also allows medical schools to better select applicants since they will have a record of how they did in the much more demanding environment of college than just high school.</p>

<p>Even if you earn an MD from an undergraduate institution in the UK, I think you will have problems obtaining a residency in the U.S. without a BA or BS and there could be states that would deny you a license to practice medicine if you did not have at least a BS or BA in addition to your MD. Remember, even though they speak English in the UK you would still be considered a Foreign Medical Graduate (FMG) and licensing requirements for FMGs are much stricter in most states than they are for U.S. Medical Graduates (USMG) which is a status you can only obtain by graduating from a medical school actually located in the U.S. and approved by the American Association of Medical Colleges (AAMC).</p>