<p>Hi everybody! I'm an international HS senior in a high competitive catholic boarding school. In the future I want to be a pediatric surgeon. However I don't really know what college fit me more.</p>
<p>I sit the SAT for the first time and I took 1590 (cr 500, wr500, ma590) but I'm gonna retake it on October and I aim to get around 2000 (I'm sure I'll get it because I'm preparing much better!!)
My GPA is 8,65 out of 10 (I'm in the 10%) that is a very good average in my country! I have great EC activities : hospital stages, volunteer, tutoring, writing for a literature blog nationally recognized, head of the department of the yearbook, journalism, 4 year of drama, a three-year program that takes places in hospital and its purpose is to make the student approach to the medical "world" (in my country it gives 2 academic credit). In the school I have a position similar to the class representative.</p>
<p>I did a school-wide research on eating disorder with a focus on the neuroendocrine system chances studied by scientist. In this project my biology teacher, who is also a nutritionist, followed me.</p>
<p>I need a piece of advise about what colleges apply to!
Thanks!!!!</p>
<p>How much can you afford to pay for college?</p>
<p>If you want to become a pediatric surgeon in the US, make sure that you have the resources available and are willing to make the sacrifices necessary to make that work. Here’s what to expect after college.</p>
<p>First medical school. Medical school is expensive and many medical schools don’t accept international students at all. Those who do often ask that you put the expected cost of attendance for all 4 years into an escrow account before you can enroll - does your family have $300,000 to spare? </p>
<p>After medical school comes residency, where you’ll be trained to be a pediatric surgeon or whatever other specialty you choose. Most foreigners receive a J-1 visa with the “2-year homestay rule” for residency. (I.e. once your J-1 visa is up, you’ll need to return to your home country for 2 years before you may apply for another US visa.)</p>
<p>Doctors can get the 2-year homestay rule waived (via a national interest waiver) if they work for 5 years in an “underserved area.” Those are prison hospitals, free clinics in poor parts of the country, rural areas where American doctors don’t want to live, etc. </p>
<p>Even if you get super lucky and are not subject to the 2-year homestay rule, you’d probably still wind up working in an underserved area. Unless you have married an American in the meantime, you’d leave residency without a work permit. Foreign doctors can get a green card via national interest waiver if they commit to work for 5 years in an - you guessed it - underserved area.</p>
<p>I though I had to apply to college after high school, even if I come from a foreign country. Because I knew that you can apply to a medical school as an international student only if you have studied an year in an American college .</p>
<p>Right now, it depends on what you want to do. If it’s science and you are ok with the fact you probably CAN’T get into med school in the US because of administrative restrictions (not because of your profile), you should choose a school that’s strong in science. With your current profile, many schools are off limits, especially if you need financial aid.
It also depends how much you can pay (the MN Rochester-Mayo Clinic is excellent, for example, but you have to pay for it out of pocket and then there’s no guarantee you can go on to med school, although UMN is one of the few public med schools that accepts international applicants as long as they can pay - many med schools don’t accept international applicants, regardless of ability to pay).</p>
Well, yes, you’ll need a Bachelor’s degree first before you can apply to medical school. But after college comes medical school and residency and with that all sorts of financial and visa issues that most aspiring doctors don’t anticipate. Just warning you what’s ahead so that you can make informed decisions.</p>
<p>An idea: The Harriett Wilkes Honors College looks for profiles such as yours (if you can raise those scores a little) and it offers scholarships to all admitted students. It’s a small honors college (400 students) with its own campus, part of a large Florida university (FAU). It’s very intense and research-focused, especially in the sciences, and it’s less quirky than New College.</p>
<p>Thanks a lot MYOS1634, I will inform of that college. It really sounds like it can fit me! However the cost of attendance it is not a matter, so if you think there could be a chance for any other college please tell me!</p>
<p>If cost of attendance doesn’t matter at all, yes there are LOTS of possibilities.
If you want strong in science and need-aware (meaning they’ll favor you because you can pay full price), you can apply to A LOT of schools.</p>
<p>Within range for you if your parents pay full price:
Juniata College, Agnes Scott, Wooster, Allegheny, Lawrence, Kalamazoo, Knox, Ripon, Union, Hiram, Douglass Residential College at Rutgers, Trinity (TX), Butler, UC-Santa Cruz, NCSU, UMinnesota Rochester/Mayo Clinic, Ithaca, Simmons, TCNJ, Clark, Indiana University, Elon, UNC-Wilmington, Willamette, Gustavus Adolphus, Transylvania, Albion, Ohio Wesleyan, UNC-Asheville, New College of Florida, The honors college of public, non-flagship universities</p>
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<li><p>Safeties: Susquehanna university (could get into the Honors College), Chatham College, Trinity Washington, UC-Merced, Elizabethtown, University of San Diego, Clarkson, U Mary Washington, St Mary’s of Maryland, Truman State, Alma, Kettering, College of Idaho, Caroll College of Montana, </p></li>
<li><p>Reaches: Rhodes, St Olaf, Dickinson, Eckerd, Whitman, William&Mary, URochester, Penn State, UCSD, Lehigh</p></li>
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<p>Type the name of the school “+ request info”
in your browser and fill out the requests to get information
All these schools are very different but you should find at least a dozen you like! Then you pick 3 safeties, 3-4 matches, and as many reaches as you wish.</p>
