Why is America so selective with its international med students?

College Search & Selection
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<p><a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/state-re-app2006.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/state-re-app2006.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p><a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/state-re-mat2006.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/state-re-mat2006.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Luckily, such data does exist...</p>

<p>297 Non US matriculants, of which 181 had no US state of legal residence, leaving 116 foreign born students with US Residency matriculated.</p>

<p>1527 Non US applicants, of which 1074 had no US State of legal residence; leaves 453 foreign born students US residency...</p>

<p>116/453 = 25.6%
181/1074 = 16.9%</p>

<p>Meanwhile, state by state acceptance rates ranged from West Virginia at 58.5% to Alaska at 34.1, 36.8 for students from DC and 38.9% for Arizona.</p>

<p><a href="http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/2006slrmat3.htm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.aamc.org/data/facts/2006/2006slrmat3.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>So it looks like that even with US residency, it's still a strike against.</p>