<p>Hi everyone :) Can you answer a few questions for me please?</p>
<p>1) Are there any websites that give admissions statistics for international students applying to med schools such as the international acceptance rate?</p>
<p>2) Are there any unspoken rules such as the more prestigious schools usually accept more internationals than the not so prestigious schools.</p>
<p>3) I know its very competitive, so what can one do to stand out from the crowd? </p>
<p>4) Is it true that most of the international spaces go to students who have no medical schools in their country, and thus those who apply who do have medical schools in their countries have an even smaller chance than those who do, making their acceptance chances extremely small?</p>
<p>4) Is there financial aid available for international students? If there is, is it like in USA where the prestigious schools usually have more aid for internationals than the not so prestigious schools?</p>
<p>Thank you.</p>
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<li>Don’t know. Look on the student room.</li>
<li>Don’t know - but there are no more prestigious schools for medicine, the courses are the same wherever you go.</li>
<li>Lots of work experience!</li>
<li>Probably not true.</li>
<li>There is no aid, if you can’t pay full whack then don’t apply.</li>
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<li><p>basically its about having as flawless grades as possible, and having as much experience/volunteering as possible. As they get so many applicants they can pick and choose whoever they like, so having one bad aspect could completely let you down.</p></li>
<li><p>There’s basically no aid available even to domestic students, so as an international you have no chance of getting any.</p></li>
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<p>About the aid, no. Like UKgirl said, domestic students rarely even get aid. The intent is that the high salary of a doctor will be able to make up for the debt. Domestic students are eligible to borrow large amounts of money to fund med school, unlike college when they need a cosigner. However, I am not sure how this works for internationals. Perhaps private loans. </p>
<p>There are some schools that don’t take internationals. Many state schools take mostly students from only their own state, so before applying check the numbers from OOS. Private schools generally don’t show in state preference. If you want to be a practicing doctor, it is not as important to go to a prestigious med school. Just getting into a med school is difficult enough. If you want to go into academic medicine, then prestige matters.</p>
<p>I’m really confused whether we’re talking about a UK student applying to US schools or the othe way round :/</p>
<p>Woah… Me too. I assumed UK → US for some reason. Idk why. Lolz fail. OP, If you’re US → UK then ignore me.</p>
<p>LOL thanks for the responses actually it’s Caribbean->UK and I just used US unis as a reference since I had previously researched them. Thanks for the help 
UKgirl23 by flawless grades, do you mean A levels, or in-school (report card/transcript)?</p>
<p>What kind of work experience? I can only think about volunteering, as I can’t find any doctors willing to be shadowed :|</p>
<p>And is it true that unis prefer to have the applicants take a social science/liberal arts subject? So they would prefer someone with bio, chem and french over say bio chem and math, or bio chem and physics?</p>
<p>bio, chem and maths are taken by almost all applicants, some also take a more liberal subject as well, but I don’t think it actually matters for the uni, more done for balance in subjects or just interest.</p>
<p>If you can’t find anyone to shadow then I don’t know what else you can do. I’m only in year 10 so am starting to look for that sort of thing this summer</p>
<p>Generally UK unis are only bothered about A levels rather than transcript</p>
<p>http:// w ww. thestuden troom.co.uk/w iki/Oxford<em>applicants _stalking</em>page<em>2013</em>entry
Can be quite interesting to look at in terms of other applicants, there are also ones for most univerisities and some for this year, so you can see results as well, but I don’t have time to find them right now.</p>
<p>Thanks for the link Is the Student Room the UK version of College Confidential? </p>
<p>Also, do you know how they would view mixing of qualifications? Say for example someone had a like say Bio in A levels, Chem in SAT II and Math in CAPE (Caribbean qualification), granted the school accepts all of these but they would say 3 A’s at A level, 3 700+ scores at SAT II or 3 1’s in CAPE? Instead of fully acquiring a set of one of the requirements you got a ‘little from each’ that would in the end be equivalent to 3 from 1 set of requirements, how would they view this?</p>
<p>It seems to me that there would have to be a VERY INTERESTING story behind someone who had such a bizarre eclectic collection of qualifications.</p>
<p>I’m very curious how that would happen.</p>
<p>I think you really should consider getting at least one “complete set” of qualifications. But I think this situation is so unusual you really should contact the schools you are interested in and explain your unique situation, rather than taking advice from strangers on the internet.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>Alright I understand, what about if they overlap (give ‘extra’)? For example 3 CAPE subjects plus 3 SAT II’s and 1 A level, would this be seen an advantageous, or would they just view it as if the applicant just had 3 CAPE subjects alone?</p>
<p>1) I think you need to contact the schools you are interested in and explain your unique situation.</p>
<p>2) I think you should focus first on getting ONE complete set of qualifications, and not worry about giving “extra” by taking US and Caribbean and UK exams. The only good reason I can think of for taking all those exams is if you are applying to US AND Caribbean AND UK colleges. Otherwise, just focus on getting ONE compete set of qualifications. But the colleges themselves will give you better advice than some stranger on the internet.</p>
<p>KEVP</p>
<p>I’m only applying to UK and Caribbean schools, not US. So just scrap the whole idea of taking SAT II’s then?</p>
<p>I’m sorry for all these questions, it’s just that the majority of people from my school apply to and matriculate to US and Caribbean schools (and some go to Canada) and they only teach you about the application process to US and Canadian schools, so I basically have no resources to go to, to inquire about UK schools and the whole process of applying to them, as it would seem that the main focus as you can see are US, Canada, and Caribbean universities.</p>