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Is there a list of schools that accept Canadians? Because I want to start looking at pre-reqs, loans and etc.
Because it's a million times easier to get into American schools if you have less than a 3.8 GPA than canadian...Canadian schools are very number happy.Why the interest in American Med schools?
There are schools that take Canadians but you have to be a US resident or citizen to get financial aid.
Because it's a million times easier to get into American schools if you have less than a 3.8 GPA than canadian...Canadian schools are very number happy.
A lot of canadians with the money to spare apply ot the US as a back up
edit: oh and I should say it goes the other way too. Here, if you have a 3.95 and a 40 MCAT, you're pretty much guaranteed to get in somewhere...while it seems like in the states people with those stats but nothing else often end up screwed.
I've heard Canadian Medical Schools allow you to drop your lowest grade for each semester.
ECs are a lot easier to patch up than GPA and MCAT.
Only a few schools doI've heard Canadian Medical Schools allow you to drop your lowest grade for each semester.
ECs are a lot easier to patch up than GPA and MCAT.
Yep all true...especially mac since they don't look at your mcat...man this is depressing lolthat's only uoft, and only if you have taken three 'full' years - i.e. five courses in the fall/winter term.
there are other kinds of strange things - like counting the grades in two full years, or three full years only, only some of the school count all courses ever. and when a school says '3.0' is the cut-off to apply, they're having a big laught, because that's mac, and their entering average for the last couple years has been the highest in canada - 3.9 something, i believe. the others have cutoffs of 3.7 or so?? and that's just the cutoff, not the entering average.
Because it's a million times easier to get into American schools if you have less than a 3.8 GPA than canadian...Canadian schools are very number happy.
A lot of canadians with the money to spare apply ot the US as a back up
edit: oh and I should say it goes the other way too. Here, if you have a 3.95 and a 40 MCAT, you're pretty much guaranteed to get in somewhere...while it seems like in the states people with those stats but nothing else often end up screwed.
I know i'm going to get blasted for this,but I know the private DO schools accept canadians.
And you can be fully licensed in every providence except Saskatchewan. Good enough for me.
Well I'm guessing you're american from your mdapps.....and you applied to UBC? Which rarely takes out of province kids let alone internationals?Speak for yourself, I have a 3.8/37 and didn't even get an interview at UBC. 24.5 out of 25 on academics and a 7.5 out of 25 on extracurriculars, WTF??? Whatever.
Speak for yourself, I have a 3.8/37 and didn't even get an interview at UBC. 24.5 out of 25 on academics and a 7.5 out of 25 on extracurriculars, WTF??? Whatever.
Well I'm guessing you're american from your mdapps.....and you applied to UBC? Which rarely takes out of province kids let alone internationals?
There's one Canadian citizen in my med school class, but she did her undergrad in the states (so was obviously a resident) and had to pay her entire 4-year tuition up front before first year started. That is quite the loan.