<p>1) Do schools prefer international students over American students, if both have the exact same stats (e.g. scores, extracurriculars, etc.)? </p>
<p>2) How many applicants, on average, are waitlisted each year (for Ivy Leagues)? </p>
<p>3) What is the difference between Early Action (EA) and Early Decision (ED)?</p>
<p>4) Will schools appreciate a drastic score increase, or will they be displeased by a poor first score?</p>
<p>5) Generally, if you are waitilsted, what are the chances of getting in?</p>
<p>6) Is it difficult for an international student to get financial aid?</p>
<p>7) I heard that U.S. medical schools rarely accept international students-is this true? What if the student graduated from the school's undergraduate program?</p>
<p>8) What are the best undergraduate pre-med programs?</p>
<p>***9) If you or a friend is/was an international student, do you or your friend have ANY ADMISSIONS TIPS to give me, seeing as how I'm an international student myself?</p>
<p>***10) What are some great SAT prep courses offered in Canada?</p>
<p>Whew. I know that was a LOT of questions, but please try to answer my questions in a detailed. Thank you SO much.</p>
<p>1). Only if the school is so rich that it doesn’t care about money.</p>
<p>2). Why do you need this?</p>
<p>3). I think ED is binding while EA is not, i.e. you have to attend a school if you are accepted through its ED program.</p>
<p>4). I believe most schools will be happy with the increase; that score, after all, is the one they will use to use calculate their average scores if they accept you.</p>
<p>5). Depends on the school and the admission year. </p>
<p>6). Yes. You can get plenty of aid at rich schools, but they are hard to get into; you can get into plenty of less generous schools, but their financial aid for internationals is hard to get.</p>
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<li>8. 10. No idea.</li>
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<p>9). Hang around here a lot, prepare for the SATs, lead an active life, and DON’T PROCRASTINATE.</p>
<p>Good Luck!</p>
<p>harvard is a pretty hard school to get into, and the mere fact that even the incountry students struggle to get into it, says that international admissions will be a burden. Best pre-med would be JHU (but med school is far better than pre-med). Another would be stanford, harvard, duke, …blah blah. You can search the top 100 premed schools if you want (i don’t wanna go through this). SAT prep in Canada (not sure) but you can get an online test prep site to improve on your weaker parts.
Some schools like Notre Dame don’t have a premed track but they have excellent advising, and they do get into top med schools such as University of Chicago. In fact, for med schools, the admissions looks mainly at your gpa which will be the most important factor.
If you are in Canada, you will be fine in terms of pre-med prep. I know that University of Alberta, Mcgill, Queens, and I forgot the other one, are ranked and known for med. Plus you’ll save like a lot of money if you study in Canada (eh?).
Although, if you are already settled in U.S. for undergrad, it would be a lot easier to transfer to a U.S. university. But make what you can of your resources. You will just have to find out about your chances when you apply, so just be patient.</p>