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Hi all,
I'm a Canadian citizen, currently a 3rd year at USMD school. According to FREIDA there are 128 IM programs that offer H1B visas. I see myself as a pretty average student, honored a couple clerkships, high pass in the rest, 250 STEP 2, couple poster presentations, pretty involved in student orgs and volunteering. There seems to be a pretty good mix of high tier, mid-tier and community type programs from the list of 128 programs mentioned above. My question is, if I hypothetically only applied only schools sponsoring H1B, lets say like 50? Is that a bad idea or is it a reasonable thing to do? Has anyone done something similar?
I know that there are much more flexibility in terms of number of programs I can apply to, but H1B just seems like the more straightforward route for someone just wanting to be a hospitalist and stay in the US.
Thank you!
I'm a Canadian citizen, currently a 3rd year at USMD school. According to FREIDA there are 128 IM programs that offer H1B visas. I see myself as a pretty average student, honored a couple clerkships, high pass in the rest, 250 STEP 2, couple poster presentations, pretty involved in student orgs and volunteering. There seems to be a pretty good mix of high tier, mid-tier and community type programs from the list of 128 programs mentioned above. My question is, if I hypothetically only applied only schools sponsoring H1B, lets say like 50? Is that a bad idea or is it a reasonable thing to do? Has anyone done something similar?
I know that there are much more flexibility in terms of number of programs I can apply to, but H1B just seems like the more straightforward route for someone just wanting to be a hospitalist and stay in the US.
Thank you!