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Hi there! I have a very important question for all of you medical students (excuse the name -- the one I wanted was taken so I opted for medicalstudent8 even though I'm still in the prospective stages ): Are you all bilingual??? With the competitiveness of getting into good 4 year universities, followed by medical school, it seems that being bilingual is just expected at this point!
I only took one year of Spanish in high school (I still remember most of what I learned though), and I'm starting to think that I better get pretty fluent in my undergraduate years if I want any chance at getting into medical school.
I am 'fluent' in American Sign Language though (not because anyone I know if deaf, just because I was more interested in that than in a traditional foreign language), if that makes any difference...
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
P.S. If you could also include what type of medical school(s) you were accepted to, that would be great (i.e. someone getting accepted to Johns Hopkins Med with only minimal foreign language experience would give me some hope here!)!
I only took one year of Spanish in high school (I still remember most of what I learned though), and I'm starting to think that I better get pretty fluent in my undergraduate years if I want any chance at getting into medical school.
I am 'fluent' in American Sign Language though (not because anyone I know if deaf, just because I was more interested in that than in a traditional foreign language), if that makes any difference...
Any help would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!
P.S. If you could also include what type of medical school(s) you were accepted to, that would be great (i.e. someone getting accepted to Johns Hopkins Med with only minimal foreign language experience would give me some hope here!)!