How do I get into a medical school in the US? If I get a 4 year undergrad degree from a university in the US, will that improve your chances? Plus, how do you pay for med school if you can’t get loans as a non-citizen.
It is very expensive. And I think it is very difficult for international students to be admitted even with undergrad degrees from a US college.
So there’s no point of studying undergrad in the US? Because you can’t get a citizenship after 4 years right?
Highly unlikely.
It’s extremely difficult and some med schools don’t take applications from international students at all.
https://ocs.fas.harvard.edu/information-canadian-other-intl-students
Not to any statistically significant degree
Private loans
Here’s some further info:
https://students-residents.aamc.org/applying-medical-school/article/applying-international-applicant/
is it hard to repay those private loans? I’m thinking of studying medicine in Canada then because you’re able to get citizenship by the time you’re done with undergrad and getting into medical school isn’t as tough
Actually, admissions to a Canadian med school is more difficult with a 10% acceptance rate…There are only 17 med schools in Canada (3 of which are French-speaking), and most reserve a large chink of spaces to in-province applicants.
That’s my point. You can become a citizen before graduating from college. So you can apply as an in-province student.
I’ll let the Canadian experts weigh in on that. But all of this seems very premature as a secondary school student.
No you cannot. The process is detailed below. While an undergraduate degree from a Canadian university will get you a work permit there is a period of several years before you can qualify as a landed immigrant. It would take a minimum of 2-3 years before you would apply for landed immigrant status.
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/study-canada/work/after-graduation.html
And even at that point if you apply to medical school as a landed immigrant you had better have at least a 3.7 GPA and a high MCAT score.
It will improve your chances in the sense that US medical schools flat out do not accept degrees earned in countries other than the US or Canada.
Will it improve your chances significantly?
Considering that only about 15-20 non-Canadian international students were accepted at all US medical schools combined last year–not really.
Not if you find a medical residency in the US and later find employment as a physician in the US–but that’s becoming extremely difficult. Most residency program will not sponsor visas for international students due to expense and legal headaches of sponsorship. Those that do sponsor visas typically only sponsor J-1 visas–which means you may not be allowed to remain in the US after you complete residency.
But getting the private loan is the hard part—you will need a qualified US citizen or US permanent resident to co-sign any private loan.
Its MUCH better to become a physician in your home country and try to apply for residency in the US, that is called IMGs. At least you have 50% chance to success. If you are really good, in a blue moon, you might become a dermatologist. There is such a doctor who made a clip on Youtube, try to search: Top 5 IMG friendly residencies in the US(pathology is number one), at the end he disclosed he is in derm residency.
^ I just looked at that video. The percentages rates for IMGs (according to the person on the video) were between 54% and 67%. I would not call that a good bet, at all.
^^^^ Lot better for the 1% admit rate for non-US residents to get in to an US med school. Never mind UPTO 4 years COA in an Escrow.
D’s class had 2 non residents that I know of, class of 72 or so. Could have been more, but I personally knew of 2.
Don’t forget over 60% of the med schools don’t even take/look at international students. Your D must be in a top tier school that accepts international students. As far as I know less than 200 international students are admitted each year in entire USA.
On sdn, there is a perfectly scored(526+ Mcat, 4.0 gpa, EC, LOR and research) internal applicant can’t get in to ANY med school for over 3 years.
I wouldn’t say it is a top tier school, maybe 2nd tier? And she is a pgy 2 now, so this was 6/7 years ago.
And most of them are Canadian admitted to allocated spaces subsidized by Canada.
Per AAMC data, for the 2017-18 admission cycle-- 1182 Internationals applied to US medical schools and 106 matriculated
https://www.aamc.org/download/321460/data/factstablea3.pdf
https://www.aamc.org/download/321462/data/factstablea4.pdf
Approximately 85% of those 106 internationals were Canadians.
Why 50% of IMGs get a medical residency.