<p>Hello,
I am an international student.
My gpa is 4/5
My Sat 1: 1960 (Math 770, Reading 560, Writing 630 with essay of 10.)
Sat subjects: Math 2:780, Bio-M:760, Chem 800.
Toefl:90+
I want to major in biochemistry.
My current schools: Bu, Tufts, U of Michigan, Duke, Northeastern, Bc, Johns Hopkins, Drexel
I need school names other than the ones on the list above.
I want some safety colleges as well</p>
<p>You could remove Drexel. Not as good as the others.</p>
<p>Add NYU, UConn, George Washington, American.</p>
<p>In another thread you indicate that you don’t want FA. So, does that mean that your family will pay $60k per year for wherever you want?</p>
<p>In another thread you said that you’re pre-med. Are you aware that many/most US med schools will not accept non-Canadian int’ls? It is VERY hard for an int’l to get accepted to a US MD school…practically impossible without some very significant hook.</p>
<p>Userbane,</p>
<p>You can run the college-matching search engines for your GPA and SAT and your major. Admissions is usually tougher for international students (even if they are full pay), so what would be a match for a US applicant is likely to be a reach, and what would be a safety for a US applicant is likely to be a match. Even for full pay internationals, there are no safeties here. Just reasonably safe matches.</p>
<p>Your major is offered at lots of places. Take a look at the rest of the public universities, and the next tier down of private ones.</p>
<p>I disagree that there aren’t any safeties for a full pay int’l. I can name several safeties for this full pay student. I’m nearly certain that UAH, UAB and Alabama would all accept this student.</p>
<p>You have good subject scores. Your SAT’s will be a problem at Duke, JHU, Tufts and possibly at Michigan and BC. Try McGill University in Canada and LAC’s outside of New England.</p>
<p>Yes I do not need FA. They will be able to pay for my school.
Yes I am aware that international student accept rate is really low for medical
Schools.
I think that I will gain some hooks during undergraduate.
It is not impossible considering my passion to work in labaratories whick will probably help me gain some research and publication hooks. Some of the medical schools do not care if you are an international student at all. I will probably start studying for Mcat in my freshman year to stand out.</p>
<p>It is highly unlikely that you will gain “some hooks” for medical school as an international student. Even if you graduate from an ELITE undergraduate program, odds are you won’t get in. Yale even suggests international students don’t apply to Yale if their ultimate goal is medical school in the US: it’s that hard.</p>
<p>Add McGill & a host of LACs such as Amherst & Williams. Univ. of California at San Diego.</p>
<p>An international student should NEVER attend a university in teh deep south like Alabama or any other Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc. To even suggest they should is being disingenuous to the best interest of the international applicant. While some international students may find it decent, a significant majority would not enjoy their time in the deep south and may not know what they are getting themselves into when applying. Please be mindful of international student concerns when suggesting universities for international applicants.</p>
<p>Well thanks for all replies but i did not ask if i can make it to medical school. I am sory if I sound ignorant but if somebody before me accepted by medical schools I will be able to do so. I want schools that are suitable for me in my path. Thanks for SCHOOL SUGGESTIONS.</p>
<p>My response to your Yale reference comes from Boston University School of Medicine.
Are Canadian students considered International students? How many slots are there for Canadian students?</p>
<p>Residency is not a requirement for Boston University School of Medicine.* BUSM has no limitation on consideration of out-of-state or international students. All applicants must meet our stated requirements and we expect that prerequisites will be fulfilled through course work completed at any accredited 4 year US or Canadian College.* Please note that Canadian applicants, should they be accepted, would be considered international applicants in terms of financial aid.* For questions regarding financial aid, please contact the Office of Student Financial Services.</p>
<p>Are you Canadian?</p>
<p>Then yes, the policies may be a bit different.</p>
<p>If you aren’t, sit your parents down and ask them if they are ready, willing, and able to pay the full cost of med school up front if you do gain admission. In many cases, that is required of international applicants.</p>
<p>Wisconsin-Madison would be a good safe match.</p>
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<p>informative, why? Race issues? </p>
<p>I’m curious because I don’t think of the south as intolerant of foreign students. Perhaps in some rural areas they’d be an oddity, but cities in the south have lots of international students and adults…Atlanta, Charleston, Birmingham, New Orleans…these are not ignorant backwaters.</p>
<p>If you were saying that for some other reason I’d be curious to know why.</p>
<p>I’ll throw in Emory in Atlanta, either Emory College or Emory at Oxford. (EC has 16% international in the class of 2016)</p>
<p>^^^ Informative likes to post many trollish polls… Either that or they are rather, well, uninformed.</p>
<p>Emory is worth a try - as would be the University of Rochester. U Pittsburgh could work as well. None of those are safeties, but you could be accepted at any of them.</p>
<p>I agree that U Alabama could make a nice safety.</p>
<p>I don’t think the OP is Canadian. I think he lives in Turkey, but maybe he’s Turkish and lives in Canada???</p>
<p>Userbame…which US med schools don’t care if you’re a domestic or int’l? Which ones would treat applicants the same? </p>
<p>Informative…Where do you get the idea that an int’l student shouldn’t go to a southern school?? Where do you get these ideas? And why do you assume that once enrolled, an int’l wouldn’t enjoy the experience? You’re projecting your biased assumptions to be fact, which they aren’t.</p>
<p>*I live in turkey if that matters…
*</p>
<p>No, he’s not Canadian, so I don’t know why he’s posting SOM policies for Canadians - which are very different from the policies for other int’ls.</p>
<p>US MD schools are to educate future American doctors, which is why they receive a LOT of gov’t funding.</p>
<p>I’d take a look at the LACs. Grinnell and Macalester, with around 11% internationals in their student body, would be good options. Grinnell has especially strong sciences including biochem - but you have to be okay with a small town in the midwest. ( <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/grinnell-college/438138-why-grinnell.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/grinnell-college/438138-why-grinnell.html</a>) Macalester is an urban LAC. I’d also look into Oberlin in Ohio and Reed in Oregon. And check out Vassar (esp. if you are male) in Poughkeepsie, NY. If you are female, there are lots of great women’s colleges: Barnard, Bryn Mawr, Smith - many of them with cross-registration at other schools that are co-ed. In the NE, look at Colby, Bates and Hamilton. </p>
<p>Check the Common Data Set (Section C) for every school you are applying to as a way of determining whether it’s a reach, match or safety.</p>
<p>^M’s Mom are you kidding? Vassar, Reed, Hamilton, Oberlin are not going to work for someone with a 560 CR score on the SAT.</p>