<p>Hi, </p>
<p>I am an international student and I just received an acceptance email from Emory University today. I am also a transfer student. I know that Emory is a great school, but apparently, the medical school acceptance rate is lower than Allegheny College. I don't know which to choose. I put together a small comparison list.</p>
<p>Allegheny - small LAC with 2100 students. medical school admission around 80+%. 15K per year renewable scholarship. Small town(Meadville) in PA with lots of snow.</p>
<p>Emory - reputable university with 5000+ undergraduates. medical school admission around 50+%. No scholarship. In Atlanta.</p>
<p>As an international student, getting into medical school would be more difficult so I would like to choose a school that would prepare me better for medical school applications. Please advise me on which school I should choose. And, if I reject Emory, will it affect my chances of getting in Emory's medical school in the future?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>if you werent international, i would have said to go with allegheny. but in your case, i think you should go to emory, get a high gpa and mcat, and you’ll be in much better shape application wise.</p>
<p>It is going to be very difficult for you to get into US medical schools because your an international. Try to establish permanent residency in the US. My roommate my 1st year was an international student from South Korea (a really rich and well connected South Korean, his parents were South Korean diplomats to the US). He was pre-med and decided to establish permanent residency in the US through a green card. As a result he is in much better shape than most international students.</p>
<p>I don’t know how difficult it is for students to get green cards, but I am guessing it wasn’t that difficult for him because he was rich and his parents were diplomats.</p>
<p>Atlanta is probably better for an international socially, but just know that it is darn near impossible for an international to obtain admission to a US med school.</p>
<p>And obtaining a Green Card in two years if you are not the scion of a diplomat just won’t happen.</p>
<p>But Allegheny seems to have a better medical school admission rate than Emory. And wouldn’t I get more guidance and help from Allegheny since it was rather small? Does Emory weed out applicants?</p>
<p>I would try to get a green card. There is also Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School in my country(Singapore) so, that would be an easier option for me. So, I am just considering which schools would be able to provide better in terms of pre medical advising.</p>
<p>Emory is a far better school. What are the exact sentences for those stats? Is it 50% of Emory students get into their number 1 while 80% of allegheny students get in somewhere? Make sure the stats are even. I think the most important is which school you will be happy at since happy students are usually more successful students.</p>
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<p>Not so simple. You will need a corporate sponsor. In other words, you will need to find an employer willing to hire you full time and pay all the associated expenses, which can run up to $10k. Typical process is 6 years. But note, you won’t be able to find a corporate sponsor until your earn your undergraduate degree and become employable. Trust me, without connections, it ain’t happening.</p>
<p>btw: most schools that publish their acceptance rates are fudging numbers. They may include acceptances to DO schools, to the Caribbean schools, etc. They may exclude certain categories of students. For example, Holy Cross does have a high acceptance rate but HC screens out low-scoring applicants by not providing them with letters of recs.</p>
<p>sorry, I should have posted that a Green Card won’t happen for many years without a connected sponsor today (or parents who are already in the GC process), 6+ after you graduate from college. Then, you could apply to med school as a resident. Of course, a permanent resident card won’t require the full 6 years, but it will take a few years of working in the US prior to applying to a US med school.</p>
<p>The smaller the school, the more BS goes into their numbers. I wouldn’t really even care if some LAC with 5 med school applicants a year claim a 100% med school acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Your choice of college should be influenced by your own preferences. However, all things being equal, I’d go for Emory if I were you. You have an uphill battle just to get into med school here. You want to have as many chips on your side as possible (this includes going to a more prestigious undergrad).</p>
<p>Allegheny is not chopped liver. It’s a good LAC. That being said, I can see a situation where 2 strong years at Emory and some work after graduation at a well-known Doctoral granting institution with a med school and CDC next door would be a favorable place to be. Opportunities. Since I know zero about green cards or international admissions, I’ll stop there.</p>
<p>My D’s med school seems to really like Emory grads. At least they did in her year.</p>
<p>D’s Med. School accepted 5 internationals this year. I do not know their UG.</p>