Just a warning for int students who want to go to US med schools

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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I just want to let int.students who want to study medicine in US know that they should be careful choosing majors. When the students do off-campus internships during undergraduate, their majors will be determining factors of whether their school/immigration department will approve CPT.

So please, if you plan to be a medical student in US, don’t go into majors like English, accounting, business, or any non-science majors. Even engineering can be a hindrance.

I know many students will have math/science majors like biology,chemistry,mathematics, etc but in case you don’t plan to, be very careful. Immigration rules are very strict about this kind of stuff

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Thanks for the advice :slight_smile: so to make things easier, majoring in Biology related area would be good?

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Medical schools typically advise prospective applicants to major in whatever they wish. What matters is that you have the prerequisite coursework done. If you get invited to interview, you need to be able to articulate why you chose your major, and a “I felt like I ought to” response does not reflect positively. Think of your time as an undergrad as the last/only chance for you to study something unrelated to medicine that you enjoy. Once you enter medical school, you are not going to have that opportunity again.

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The chances of an international student getting admission to a US medical school are very low regardless of what you major in.

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@umcoe16 I don’t think you understand. It’s not matter of whether you like or not. It is a technical issue. It is a LAW that international students should do internships that are directly related to their majors, meaning that if you are an English major and want to do some science related internships or Co-op, the chance is your school’s international office will not let you do it because…English major has nothing to do with science internships.

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The challenges for international students wanting to attend US med schools go far beyond choice of undergraduate major. International students have to demonstrate they have the financial resources to fund med school-- all of it.