Hey guys,
I have three questions 1) What are the chances that I can get into at least one medical school? I know I am freaking out a little too much but Ahhhhh the admission rates for international students are all like 0.5%...(1 out of 200 people...) even in very non-competitive schools!
2) Do I have a better chance at MD/phD or MD? I am interested in doing research but it is not that important for me to do MD/phD or MD+research fellowship. Whichever is easier for me would be good (because I heard MD/phDs might be easier for international students cause they don't really have a discrimination...)
3) Anything I can do during the year after graduation that would increase my chance?
Overal GPA 3. 87 Science GPA 3.99 (screwed up my overall GPA when I studied art history in Florence :-( )
MCAT maybe 37 (taking it in May)
3 summers + 2 semesters of lab research, the 2 summers and the 2 semesters are in the same lab, and one summer in another lab (the semesters that I didn't do research was because I went abroad and then my PI couldn't get his funding renewed....) no publication
Speak five languages fluently or proficiently, including Chinese and Spanish
tutoring 1 year, violin+chamber music for 4 years, chair of italian club, Volunteered in Mexico for two weeks,(playing with babies, nothing clinical) women's crew team for a year, and 100+ volunteering in hospital+ shadowing (but I don't have a very sustained volunteering in a clinical setting. It's all over the place....)
I am taking a year off. I will probably end up doing research but I really want to travel and teach/volunteer somewhere. (Japan, India??).......but I heard that MD/phD programs want to see that you can't live without research, so if you don't do research during your year off it looks bad (is it true?)
Thanks very much!
I have three questions 1) What are the chances that I can get into at least one medical school? I know I am freaking out a little too much but Ahhhhh the admission rates for international students are all like 0.5%...(1 out of 200 people...) even in very non-competitive schools!
2) Do I have a better chance at MD/phD or MD? I am interested in doing research but it is not that important for me to do MD/phD or MD+research fellowship. Whichever is easier for me would be good (because I heard MD/phDs might be easier for international students cause they don't really have a discrimination...)
3) Anything I can do during the year after graduation that would increase my chance?
Overal GPA 3. 87 Science GPA 3.99 (screwed up my overall GPA when I studied art history in Florence :-( )
MCAT maybe 37 (taking it in May)
3 summers + 2 semesters of lab research, the 2 summers and the 2 semesters are in the same lab, and one summer in another lab (the semesters that I didn't do research was because I went abroad and then my PI couldn't get his funding renewed....) no publication
Speak five languages fluently or proficiently, including Chinese and Spanish
tutoring 1 year, violin+chamber music for 4 years, chair of italian club, Volunteered in Mexico for two weeks,(playing with babies, nothing clinical) women's crew team for a year, and 100+ volunteering in hospital+ shadowing (but I don't have a very sustained volunteering in a clinical setting. It's all over the place....)
I am taking a year off. I will probably end up doing research but I really want to travel and teach/volunteer somewhere. (Japan, India??).......but I heard that MD/phD programs want to see that you can't live without research, so if you don't do research during your year off it looks bad (is it true?)
Thanks very much!
