<p>It is said that Canadian universities for undergrad are cheaper than many US schools even for US citizens.
I was wondering if any US citizens out there had ever gone to Canada for a bachelors (at UToronto or McGill for instance) then came back to the U.S. for med school (keeping US citizenship the entire time).
If so, did US med schools give you a hard time about going to Canada for undergrad?</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Can’t speak from experience ( both daughter attend schools in the US), but AMCAS recognizes and accepts transcripts from Canadian universities and so will most (all?) US medical schools. Canadian and US colleges are accredited by same accrediting bodies and thus are considered equivalent for admission purposes.</p>
<p>What your US student will need to do, however, is get clinical exposure (shadowing, volunteering) in the US during their Canadian undergrad since med schools will expect the student to be familiar with how the US healthcare system functions. (It’s not like the Canadian system.)</p>
<p>I am an American alumnus of McGill (but was Management, not Life Sciences). I had a friend, also American, who graduated with me at McGill. He was accepted at BU, Tufts and UMass medical schools (denied at Harvard med, oh well). </p>
<p>The curricula are quite similar. The differences in medicine between the US and Canada are in the area of funding and access, not in the actual practice of medicine. </p>
<p>I know of someone who went to McGill and did some summers and a full year at NIH and joined Drexel in this decade.</p>