<p>I have a sticky situation. I got into Johns Hopkins, St. Andrews (Scotland) and UniMelb (Australia). I would like to pursue medicine, and hopefully practice in the United States, perhaps the UK but it seems like the route is totally different.</p>
<p>Johns Hopkins is 60k a year that I would have to pay for myself if I went.</p>
<p>St. Andrews is for Psychology (4 years) and ~14k (I get discounts for abroad schools...long story)</p>
<p>Uni Melbourne is for Neuroscience (3 years) and also about ~14k per year (with 3 flights half off each!)</p>
<p>I keep doing research and it's turning up that med schools don't like foreign degrees. I was thinking about doing a post-bacc after Melbourne. </p>
<p>If I take THAT route, how greatly would I be hindering my chances to go to med school? (I am a US Permanent Resident btw!)</p>
<p>I was also wondering, given my options, does anyone suggest anything better? And does anyone recommend a few med schools that would still consider me given my situation? I would just like a general consensus of the difficulty behind my plans to prepare myself. I'm very determined to become a physician in the US but I don't want to be 240k in debt because I went to Hopkins either.</p>
<p>I don't think I'd consider being a DO either by the way. Any help would be greatly appreciated. </p>
<p>*also, if it comes down to Melbourne and Scotland being equally difficult for my career, which would be better in terms of preparation? I know Melbourne is huge on biotech and is a huge school in general...? </p>
<p>Please help I am stressing SO much about this. :(</p>
<p>The idea of borrowing $240k for JHU is crazy. Too much undergrad debt. You’d end up with $500k in debt after med school.</p>
<p>Besides, would your parents co-sign and qualify for that crazy debt? If not, then you wouldn’t get those loans.</p>
<p>You might consider emailing a few of the better known post bacc programs and asking them how they view applicants with foreign degrees and whether they will accept such applicants. </p>
<p>I don’t know anything about Scotland, but D1 has friend who’s a prof at U Sydney–and he sincerely regrets accepting the position since the COL there is extremely expensive.</p>
<p>OP–you’ve asked the same thing before and you will get the same answer this time.</p>
<p>There are a very limited number of US medical schools that will even consider a foreign degree. There is no central list of which schools will. You need to do the research on that yourself by reading the educational requirements for every US medical school. (It’ll be posted on the admissions website for each school.)</p>
<p>You will also need to read the admission websites and/or contact post bacc programs and ask if they will consider applicants who hold foreign degrees. There is no central list which holds that kind of information.</p>
<p>A high quality post-bacc (Swathmore, JHU, Bryn Mawr, Mills, etc) will probably not hurt your chance for a med school acceptance, but it certainly will not guarantee it either. </p>
<p>There is no financial aid for post-bacc programs other than unsub loans. And they tend to be quite expensive. ($30,000+/year)</p>
<p>Your best, least expensive, most practical and fastest-to-med-school option would be find a US college or university that’s affordable and attend it.</p>