Hi, I'm 29, recent immigrant to US, Florida resident. I have foreign Bachelor's in Education GPA 4.0. Took all prerequisites in US GPA 3.9. MCAT 25Q. Do you think I have chances? And if yes, which schools should I try?
Hi, I'm 29, recent immigrant to US, Florida resident. I have foreign Bachelor's in Education GPA 4.0. Took all prerequisites in US GPA 3.9. MCAT 25Q. Do you think I have chances? And if yes, which schools should I try?
Hi, I'm 29, recent immigrant to US, Florida resident. I have foreign Bachelor's in Education GPA 4.0. Took all prerequisites in US GPA 3.9. MCAT 25Q. Do you think I have chances? And if yes, which schools should I try?
I believe the low MCAT score will hurt you the most. You need to pull it up for an MD admission. Your US GPA with just the pre-reqs is great and contrary to what some have said you dont need all 90 credits completed in the US for all schools. You do need a bachelors degree from some accredited school somewhere in the world. You will need 90 US credits for some schools though.
I have a bachelors and masters from a foreign school and scored a 30+ on the MCAT and am planning to retake next spring (because of a low verbal score - inspite of scoring 12/13 in the sciences). I did some research and good majority of the schools just need the pre-reqs or a 1 year of classes completed in the US. Some need 2 years while some public schools need the full 90 credits. But, that is the bare minimum for foreign graduates. The more US credits you have, the better / easier will it be for them to gauge you and your level of interest in Medicine.
Based upon my research, schools that need 90 credits include:
All schools in Texas (except for UT Southwestern and UT San Antonio)
George Washington University
Northwestern University
Dartmouth Medical School
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Wright State University
Temple University
Eastern Virginia Medical School
University of Virginia
Virginia Commonwealth University
West Virginia University
Marshall University
Few need a bacc degree in the US like:
Michigan State University
Mayo Medical School
So that excludes about 20 MD schools from 133 total. Lets say that for whatever reason you cannot apply at another 20 odd schools. That still leaves you with 70% of US MD schools to apply with what you have (if you can bring up your MCAT score) - which to my mind is a lot of schools as realistically speaking you would only apply to 20 some schools on an average at the high end.
Keep in mind that the pre-reqs at some schools includes some credits in humanities/social sciences - which you may lack if you are a science graduate at a foreign school.
Hi, I'm 29, recent immigrant to US, Florida resident. I have foreign Bachelor's in Education GPA 4.0. Took all prerequisites in US GPA 3.9. MCAT 25Q. Do you think I have chances? And if yes, which schools should I try?