International Exchange Program

[pandagirll]

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I'm going into my senior year this fall and I have a chance to go on an exchange abroad for the winter semester. I'd take the offer in a heartbeat if I knew my courses appeared graded rather than pass/fail on the transcript, as well as them satisfying prerequisite requirements (I was planning on taking a few psychology classes).

So If anyone can pass on some knowledge regarding the issue and how it would affect my med school application, that would be great 🙂

Ps. I have applied this cycle

 

[coolingglasses]

It is 100% program and institution dependent. Also you want to make sure the classes you take will be pre-verified by your school so you don't have to go through the trouble of having them certified by one of the bodies AACOMAS dictates.

In my case, I went through an Erasmus exchange through my university so I didn't have to deal with that. Studying abroad can be helpful if you gain some experiences to draw on. However, I didn't take any sciences because they were all in the local language, and the classes I did take were P/F when they transferred. Again, this kind of thing is entirely program-dependent and you'd want to talk to a study abroad advisor if you have one.

Of course, what I really wonder is how you plan to do interviews/post-acceptance paperwork if you're applying this cycle... fingers crossed for a fall acceptance? Or is this during the winter intersession (your winter break)? If so, that's a totally different story. But when you say "winter semester" I assume you mean January-May.