<p>Hey guys,
I’m an American citizen but have been studying in India since 6th grade.
Do you think it’ll hurt my chances of applying for a postgraduate course (in the US) if I graduate from India?</p>
<p>Yes, I’m. A bit rusty on the topic but I believe you need to do some of your college in the us.</p>
<p>I was just reading something on that subject…</p>
<p>It looks like many SOMs expect undergrad to be from US schools or at least a year or two…maybe at least the pre-med pre-reqs???</p>
<p>So maybe a post-bac here first???</p>
<p>Hey,
Would it hurt my chances of getting into a U.S. medical school if I go to college at McGill University (Montreal, Canada)? Because going there is a high possibility unless I would be at a disadvantage.</p>
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If the postgraduate program is an MD program, it will likely hurt your chance solely because you are considered as an out-of-state applicant by every med school in US. Also, many med schools may consider your tie to the community (or at least to the state or the region the med school is in) when you grew up, before it decides whether it will favor you.</p>
<p>An interesting thing in our state (at least this is the case a few years ago) is that: A student can be considered as a non-citizen by the US federal government (because he is a citizen of another country and lives in US, either legally or illegally) but is considered as a resident by our state government when he applies to college (not sure whether it is the same for a postgraduate program.)</p>
<p>MDreams, I suspect that, if your parents still live in a state in US, you may claim you just go out of your home state to study but is still a resident of your parent’s state because of your dependency on your parents. But I am not 100 per cents sure about this.</p>
<p>I have no first-hand knowledge on the issue, but my gut instinct is that McGill is an internationally-known school with a really good reputation. Because of its reputation, I assume that you won’t be at a really big disadvantage in terms of being considered by US medical schools. </p>
<p>The bigger problem will likely be figuring out the application process since all the pre-med advisers will probably be geared toward getting people into the Canadian medical schools. So you might run into some institutional roadblocks, but I don’t think you’ll run into a whole lot of roadblocks from the US schools, assuming that you do maintain your US citizenship.</p>