<p>Hey all.
so i am heading to college this fall.
i am an international student and will be attending a non-US College, which makes me fall into the category of Med School Reject, automatically, since international students are rarely taken. BUT STILL. i want to give it my best shot. </p>
<p>so, i wanted to know, if i get a really good MCAT score- (40ish +-2), but have a 3.5ish GPA, and lots of amazing stuff on the application, can i make a cut with that GPA, being an international, into HMC or Yale Med? i know i am thinking of impossible stuff, but i am ready to work my arse off for Yale med. But the college i will be attending follows a grade deflation. hence, i am all scared right now.
any one knows any international student at a good med school, personally?
any suggestions?
its not that i am aiming for just those 2 school, but obviously, they are the top choice (and long shots, though) and ofcourse, they give significant scholarships, so!</p>
<p>(p.s dont be like, oh aren't you a little too young to be thinking about a med school? or like, enjoy college life, etc? meh. but well, NO)</p>
<p>Yale requires that all your pre-req coursework must be taken at college in the US, UK, or Canada</p>
<p>[Pre-Medical</a> Requirements > Admissions | Medical Education | Yale School of Medicine](<a href=“http://medicine.yale.edu/education/admissions/apply/premed.aspx]Pre-Medical”>http://medicine.yale.edu/education/admissions/apply/premed.aspx)</p>
<p>Harvard requires all international applicants complete at least 1 full year of their college education at a US or Canadian school. And strongly suggests all preqs be completed at a US or Canadian college or university.</p>
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<p>[Admissions</a> FAQs | HMS](<a href=“Admissions | Medical Education - Harvard Medical School”>Admissions | Medical Education - Harvard Medical School)</p>
<p>And while both Yale and Harvard do offer need-based to all students, students are first required to take out substantial loans, before any grant aid kicks in. (So characterizing the aid there as “good scholarships” is pretty misleading. Aid from the medical schools is not as generous nor as freely offered as aid for the undergrad.)</p>
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<p>I think you are going to find there are no US allopathic medical schools that will accept a degree from a foreign institution outside the US, Canada or UK without the supplementation of additional science coursework taken in the US. IIRC, there are 2- 3 osteopathic medical schools who will, under certain circumstances, consider applicants with degrees from foreign institutions. (However, they don’t offer any financial aid to international students as a matter of policy.)</p>
<p>American medical schools make it almost impossible to be admitted with a non-american/canadian degree. It is easier to do medicine in India and then try to come for residency than trying to get into a med school after studying undergrad elsewhere.</p>
<p>also i don’t know what kind of aid those schools give to internationals. For example at my school they don’t give any and in fact require you be able to FRONT the 4 years of tuition into an escrow account.</p>
<p>@WOWMom.
so i stall be studying at NYU-Shanghai, probably?
its a campus opened by NYU at Shanghai with degree from NYU itself. so i am confused whether that will count for an US college or college in shanghai?
but the degree shall be from New York University.
any idea what category i come in? or, should i still try for US Med Schools?
thanks. </p>
<p>P.S i’ll be copying this text to other post of mine (which i accidentally made). please respond on either of the two!</p>
<p>You will need to check to see how AMCAS categorizes this school. You’ ll find that information in the AMCAS Instruction Manual 2013</p>
<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/students/download/182162/data/amcas_instruction_manual.pdf</a></p>
<p>But not even that list is exhaustive.</p>
<p>It’s irrelevant that NYU’s name is on your diploma if the school has not been accredited by (US) National Advisory Committee on Institutional Quality and Integrity. It’s the accreditation that’s important. This something you will need to research yourself.</p>
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<p>And even if your college is on the approved list for AMCAS, you will still lack exposure to the US healthcare system. Without US physician shadowing and extensive clinical volunteering within the US health care system, your application to any US med school will fatally handicapped even if your degree is acceptable.</p>
<p>oh, about the shadowing a doctor?
i have already thought about that. this family friend, a doctor in US, is ready to let me observe him and shadow him during summer of 2014. so.
and not just that one. i shall be interning for summer at US’s hospital as well.
like, what i am trying to say here is that i’ll be doing my best to make my app the best possible.
i’ll ask the colleges itself, regarding the procedure and other details.
thanks a lot.
other than that, any tips, suggestions, concerns, that i should be aware of?</p>