Johns Hopkins, University of Maryland or University of Toronto?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>Forget medical schools for a minute. Do you really want to be surrounded by pretentious, overly confident kids for 4 years at JHU - where they deflate your grades - for 60 grand? I mean if it were 1/3 of the price, the prestige would be worth it. But 60 grand isn’t. You can pave your own way and you sound mature enough to do that.</p>

<p>You can create your own success without the prestige of a university. Go to UToronto (where, yes it is extremely difficult) but at least it’s much bigger and you can find your niche and actually grow as a person, something that medical schools care a lot about. Medical schools don’t care if you have a 4.0 if you’re not empathetic and truly passionate about medicine. Find people who think the way you do and will help you become the young lady that can help others, and become the doctor she is dreaming to become today.</p>

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<p>Can someone explain to me how AACOMAS works? Say I were to go to St. Andrews?</p>

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<p><a href=“http://www.aacom.org/resources/bookstore/cib/Documents/2013cib/2013cib-p21-23.pdf[/url]”>http://www.aacom.org/resources/bookstore/cib/Documents/2013cib/2013cib-p21-23.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>FAQs give an explanation of the process for handling transcripts from foreign insitutions.</p>

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<p>Great, thank you for all the help. If anyone has any other threads please post them, I’d appreciate it.</p>

<p>I don’t want to post any other questions, I’ll just post other threads specific to those questions :)</p>

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<p>OP—</p>

<p>You will still need to check each DO school’s website to see if the specific med school has admission requirements regarding where a degree can be earned.</p>

<p>I did a very random sample (looked at 3) and every one of them had requirements that included graduation from US accredited college or university. </p>

<p>So while the link above gives a process to get foreign transcripts evaluated and accepted by AACOMAS, it doesn’t guarantee that any particular osteopathic school will accept a degree from a foreign college.</p>

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<p>READ THIS AND YOU WILL NEVER REGRET YOUR DECISIONS
As I have said to my senior HS sibling:

  • Money is important. Don’t choose a school that has a price tag that is cringe-worthy. You’re going to undergrad to STUDY, not weep over how how you will afford the institute
  • Will you do well? Even if you went to the most competitive high school, your performance at undergrad is unrelated because your teacher will be a prof and that prof will base your grade on 3/4 exams the entire semester and those exams will never be like what you were used to in high school. Curving can be either good or bad and you will never know your prof will do your grades. Labs (which are merely 1 credit) will seem impossible to get an A on because only 3-4 students make the A mark at top schools. When you find out that 100% of your state school pre-meds down the road get A’s on these very courses…you will not like it and you will regret your decisions and come to accept that perhaps med schools will see just how competitive your school is and compensate you for that…Partially WRONG.
  • How is the environment/honor system? If you find the students notorious and mean on first account, don’t hold back and just make that a stereotype of the school. Schools that may harbor nice students at first glance can flip just as well once you start attending the university. Gauze at how the professors teach and how the students react.
  • Finally, what resources/special programs is each university offering you RIGHT NOW? It doesn’t matter how many cool scholarships one university might have for you in the future if currently they don’t even give you those scholarships. It is very important to be acknowledged in a group that makes you feel special at that university. A lower ranked university can provide you great resources and you should never discredit their efforts. Your standing out will mean so many activities during the summer/academic year that you will be above or on par with an ivy league student in terms of achievement. Find out where flexibility of achieving the most is possible.
  • Finally, my assertion is that you should go to U of maryland. U of Toronto’s life sciences is very competitive and may be even worse than Johns Hopkins. Most students are commuters and it may not have the U.S. institute vibe. Having your U.S. Citizenship will be good but you also have to account for the environment and weather.</p>