Foreign language?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>With the competition of medical schools nowadays, it seems to me like being nearly fluent in a foreign language would be a desirable skill to possess. However, is it necessary? If you are not even close to even proficient in a foreign language but are exceptional in all other aspects (i.e. 4.0 GPA and VERY high MCAT), do you even have a chance at medical school? Plenty of my own doctors are uni-lingual and they're doing just fine, but they went to medical school 20+ years ago. What are the standards of today?</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Of course it's not necessary.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the reply! You weren't being sarcastic, were you? lol Sorry if you weren't but I just never know with these CC'ers! ;)</p>

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<p>It's really not necessary.</p>

<p>Sarcasm would be:
"Every medical school requires that all students speak fluent Estonian. Failure to meet this requirement will always result in automatic rejection."</p>

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<p>hahaahaha Okay, thank you very much!!!</p>