mandatory military service & Pre-Med

Pre-Med & Medical School High School Student Topics
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<p><em>sorry in advance for my poor grammar</em></p>

<p>as you know, it is mandatory for koreans to serve 2 years in military..
and i am getting drafted to south korea for mandatory military service in few years</p>

<p>i am a senior in high school and planning to do pre med in college..</p>

<p>here are plans that i am thinking about:
1)finish pre-med(taking MCAT)-> take 2 year break for military service -> come back to US->apply med school</p>

<p>2)do 2 year of pre-med-> take 2 year break for military ->come back to US -> complete the other 2 year of pre-med->take MCAT-> apply med school..</p>

<p>i really need help in constructing the road to med school.. please give me thoughts/opinions toward my plan..and please give me a way i could combine mandatory service and pre med...</p>

<p>p.s. if i dont serve korean military for 2 years and run away from it, i cant step on korean soil ever again...</p>

<p><em>once again, i apologize for my grammar</em></p>

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<p>Your MCAT score is only good for 2-3 years. (Oldest acceptable test date is school-dependent. However, AMCAS expires all scores 3 years from the test date.) If you take it, then serve your military service, there is a strong possibility score will have expired when you go to apply for medical school and you’ll need to retake it.</p>

<p>You also need to understand that it is extremely difficult for an international student to gain admission to a US medical school. First, fewer than 50 US medical schools will even consider internationals for admission. Second, there is extremely limited financial aid available to international students to attend a US medical school. Only 4-5 US med school provide any FA to internationals. You will need to provide proof that you can pay for medical school (either via a letter of guarantee from your home country’s government or through depositing 1-4 years worth of tuition & living expenses into a escrow account) before you will be allowed to matriculate.</p>

<p>[Medical</a> School Admissions Policies Towards Non-US Citizens](<a href=“Computility Association Portals > Home Page”>Computility Association Portals > Home Page)</p>

<p>Because of these limitations/difficulties, fewer than 200 international student matriculate into US medical school each year.</p>

<p>According to AAMC, over 2000 internationals applied to US med schools last year and only 183 matriculated.</p>

<p><a href=“https://www.aamc.org/download/321462/data/2012factstable4.pdf[/url]”>https://www.aamc.org/download/321462/data/2012factstable4.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>BTW, most of international matriculants (~80%) are from Canada since the Canadian government offers guaranteed loans for Canadian residents who study medicine in the US.</p>

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<p>“non-US citizen permanent residents (green card holders) are generally treated the same as U.S. citizens” </p>

<p>thanks for the answer and research…</p>