<p>I got accepted into cambridge university and uc berkeley for premed. Now I am just wondering that If i go to cambridge university for premed, is it possible for me to go to an american medical school since I am american? If not possible then please explain why.</p>
<p>Yes, you can still go to an American medical school.</p>
<p>I believe that american medical schools will want to see that you’ve done prerequisites at american universities. Plus, the UK does something completely different for their physician training (I believe it starts in college) so I’m not even sure how compatible the two systems are as far as doing premed at one and med school at the other.</p>
<p>Two things:
A. Worry about getting in first.
B. I wouldn’t recommend it unless you want to practice in the UK. It just doesn’t seem like it would work well with the US system of physician training.</p>
<p>Do you have a good reason to go to Cambridge over Berkeley? Why not go to UCB and do a semester abroad at Cambridge?</p>
<p>It is my understanding that American medical schools like comparing apples for apples when it comes to evaluating applicants coursework. The Oxbridge system is very different from undergrad in the US. </p>
<p>From the Johns Hopkins Medical School webpage:
I could be wrong but I believe that many US medical schools have this stipulation. </p>
<p>Can it be done? Possibly. But if you truly want to go to medical school in the US why make it harder on yourself? There will be no relevant pre-med advising at Cambridge, no committee to write you a letter. I know that my daughter took full advantage of those services while a student at Columbia and I am sure that Berkeley offers the same. JMHO</p>
<p>On the other hand, my daughter is finishing two years of grad school at Oxford and I think that she would say they have been the best two years of her life. She knows a number American grad students who feel the same about their Cambridge experience. Oxford and Cambridge are magical.</p>
<p>It’s a rare opportunity to study at Cambridge. Go ahead and do it. If absolutely necessary, do an extra year at UCB in case.</p>
<p>Wait a second…how are you still deciding, weren’t enrollment for american colleges due a month ago? Did you get off a waitlist or something? I mean if you just want to study abroad at Cambridge for a semester or a year, that’s no problem. But there’s just too many hoops to jump through if you want to get your degree from Cambridge.</p>
<p>I know but my father is really pressuring me to go a british university for my pre med and then going to an american medical school here in the u.s. You see I am a Muslim and my father does not think that I will pass my college courses for premed because he thinks that there are no premed students that are muslim in the united states and that the “system” in colleges here in the u.s will not allow me to go to medical school. I am just really frusturated with this and i was hoping that If i can go to a british university maybe that would relieve my stress.</p>
<p>There are many muslim premed students, and you will be able to go to medical school so long as you are qualified academically.</p>
<p>Elleneast and others- Berkeley premed advising is what one could expect from a local DMV, cookie cutter and luck of the draw.</p>
<p>My DD made some wonderful relationships with actual professors, but as to any substantive advising, forget it, do CC & SDN, you will be far ahead.</p>
<p>You need to compare the costs of those two options- are you a CA resident? Would you pay foreign fees in the UK, how will exchange rate fluctutations affect you?</p>
<p>I know many kids who go to the UK to do a 4-6 year medical programme, but not so many who come back to the US for med school.</p>
<p>I think if you are passionate about it being your dream you could make it work, but not just because your dad tells you to do it.</p>
<p>There are many should dos and shouldn’t dos in the med school app process- and you should try to get your GPA over 3.5 and your MCAT over 30, but much of the rest of the journey really should be your authentic journey as to what is right for you, not joining some rote cookie cutter line of kids joining premed clubs and being a gunner MCB major at Berkeley.</p>
<p>If you choose an unusual path, make sure you do everything else you need to do so the adcoms have no doubts about your readiness. Perhaps call your local in state medical school and ask them about it, find out what would reassure them when you apply from abroad as an American citizen</p>
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<p>I find that parents often have grossly outdated ideas of what college is like these days. The admissions processes for undergrad and medical school have changed significantly over two or three decades, and giving a child advice based on what things were like 30 years ago is often a recipe for disaster.</p>
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<p>If you ask me, Cambridge is going to be a big mistake. Cambridge simply does not send very many students to American medical schools, so the quality of the advising is probably going to be dubious at best. In addition, if I’m not mistaken, the UK college system is not set up in such a way to allow students to take multiple basic science courses to fulfill the pre-med requirements of American medical schools, so you might have trouble getting a degree and taking all the courses you need.</p>
<p>u.s. schools love having any kind of diversity they can get, whether ethnic or religious or what-not. if anything, u will have advantages being muslim at an american college. and there are plenty of muslims in medical school, along with hindus and buddhists and jews and catholics and christians. (i went to bu which is known for its diversity and have friends from all different backgrounds going to medical schools)</p>
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<p>Often parents do not know that their ideas are outdated. What could be worse is that when they are corrected by somebody else (esp. their own children) and they are not willing to accept that they have made a mistake because of the ego issue (Do not want to “lose face” in front of their children.) This may cause all kinds of tension between two generations, even though there is usually no ill-intention from both sides. I admit this is not an easy task (i.e., to keep your mouth shut and try to be all ears) here.</p>
<p>One trick that I think could help ease the tension is that the parents should talk more about something seemingly “unimportant” to both, that is, something that is not directly related to their (college age) children’s schoolwork or career choices. Instead, they should try to talk more about something like trivial things happened recently, new hobbies, some nutrition fact, the “Lost” TV show, exercise, music, computer (except when their child is a computer science major), or even tax returns. Everything but something closely to their major/career!</p>
<p>And also, if your child happens to be a premed, lurk on a premed forum once in a while to update your knowledge 
And when you learn something, do not try to convey what you have learned too eagerly to your premed children – as they may still know more than you do as they are actually in it. Avoid providing unsolicited opinions or suggestions in this particular area.</p>
<p>When I talk to parents, I do so in the hope that it will make them worry less about their children, not more! =)</p>
<p>What course have you been accepted on at Cambridge exactly? There is no such thing as “pre-med” in the UK (they wouldn’t even know what that term means). There are two routes to medicine here and the most common is a 6 year undergraduate course. At the end of this, you are a doctor. No further qualification required in Europe and Commonwealth countries. BUT as noted above, you would not then be able to practice medicine in the USA. There are some test you would have to take again. I am no expert in this so I don’t know what you would need to do exactly. But before you commit to such a course, you need to find out.</p>
<p>The second route to study medicine in the UK would be to do any science degree and then do “fast track” medicine which takes a further 4 years of graduate study. Many of these courses are limited to EU students only.</p>
<p>As other people have posted above, if you do a science degree in the UK and then want to apply for medical school in the US, you need to be very careful. You are unlikely to be able to find anyone to advise you here. I am guessing you might have been accepted to study Natural Sciences at Cambridge. This course is unusual (and I should know since I completed it) in that there is more choice of subjects within the course (but only sciences). However, you need to make sure you choose the right subjects each year in order to complete US pre-med requirements. No-one here will be able to tell you what to do. So before you start down this route I advise you to contact some US medical schools and ask them exactly what you would need to study in order for your Cambridge degree to be considered equivalent to a US pre-med course. Then you would need to ask your college director of studies in Cambridge which options to choose in order to meet these requirements. If you don’t do this, you could end up spending a lot of money on Cambridge, and then a lot more money (and time) on completing the pre-med requirements in the US. It’s possible, but complicated, and essentially you are on your own in making sure you complete the requirements.</p>
<p>Berkeley is one of the most diverse schools in the US. I would not worry about being Muslim there. </p>
<p>I would think your best bet which would really make you stand out is to do three years in California and spend a year at Cambridge.</p>
<p>Your chances of getting into an American Medical School are slim if you graduate from Cambridge.</p>
<p>Also I heard that the UK recently decided that international students will not be able to do their residencies in the UK (unless I guess they become citizens maybe?), so you should look into that as well. I do not know the details, but this is what others have told me. You could finish your medical studies at Cambridge and try to come back to the US for residency, I mean, if ppl in the Caribbean come back and do their residency in the US, I would think that someone from Cambridge could too…</p>
<p>go to cambridge and then stay in the UK for the rest of your life and never come back to this country lol</p>