<p>Here's my story.</p>
<p>My dad got a job in US in 2003. My mom, my brother, and I came to US in 2005 with E2 visa. We were working on getting the green card, but the lawyer screwed up with the files (not sure about the details) so it got rejected.</p>
<p>Then, my dad got another job at LG since they offered to hire him for green card. I think this was in late 2009 or 2010. My mom, my brother, 3 year old sister who was born here, and I went to South Korea in 2011 for the first time in 6 years. My dad stayed behind to work (was planning to visit that winter). Then, we got a call that he died in an accident while working.</p>
<p>We didn't get a green card just yet because it was taking longer than usual because we were rejected the first time. My mom got a F-1 visa so we can stay in US.</p>
<p>I'm a rising senior. I'm planning to get my own F-1 visa and attend an undergraduate school in US. I've been wanting to become a veterinarian, and I don't want to attend a vet school in South Korea (where I'm from) because it sucks compared to vet schools in US. I realize that vet schools are extremely hard to get into. I was researching something, and I read that it's nearly impossible for international students to attend a med school, much less a vet school since there are very few vet schools.</p>
<p>I'm not sure if that's true or not. Any tips?</p>
<p>P.S. I think my mom said something about being able to get a green card by the time I'm a sophomore in college... I don't know any details about that since she didn't tell me.</p>
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If you don’t know the details of the plan, don’t count on it. There’s no direct path from an F-1 visa to a green card. Your mother would either have to be sponsored for a green card by an employer, or get a green card through marriage. </p>
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The biggest obstacle for international students hoping to attend medical school is funding. Medical school is super expensive and usually paid for by family savings or loans (like $200,000 worth of loans). Since international students don’t qualify for student loans from American banks, medical schools want proof that an international student can pay for the education before they consider them for admission. (It’s not rare to require foreign students to place 1 or even 4 year’s worth of cost of attendance into an escrow account prior to enrollment.) </p>
<p>However, many medical schools are happy to consider international applicants as long as they can provide the requisite financial documentation.</p>
<p>Is your question really about medical school, or is it about veterinary school. Those are two different issues. If you want to know about vet school admissions, contact the one that serves your state of residence, and ask them for further guidance.</p>
<p>Many Med schools dont accept f visa students. Some schools dont even accept permanent residents…</p>
<p>Yale and Dartmouth med offer $$ to internationals. Of course, it’s also ridiculously competitive, and these two are prob the only ones (maybe except Harvard? Stanford? MD-PhD programs?) that offer good $$.</p>
<p>Vet school is a different thing. </p>