Hi Everyone,
I'm hoping for a little advice here. My girlfriend wants to go to medical school and I wonder what you think her chances are. She has a BA in music (or piano performance) from a university in China, where she's originally from, and a MA in piano performance from a university in the US. She hasn't taken the MCAT, but has taken the Kaplan review course (2 or 3 times) and scores about 7-7-8 on their practice MCATs. I don't know her undergrad GPA, but while getting her master's she held near 4.0. She's also taken all the prereq's and overall science is about 3.5.
The biggest deal that I see is her communications skills. English is her second language and it's pretty difficult to express herself clearly outside of a set of comfortable phrases that she's picked up over the years. I mean, I can understand her pretty well, but many other people have a hard time following her. Also, she tends to misunderstand things people say to her, and her writing is very bad.
Because of this, she thinks that her best shot for medical school is the Caribbean. Does anyone think this is reasonable? I'm currently in my second year of MS, and can't imagine her getting through classes as rough as anatomy or pharm, especially with her language skills. Also, on a practical level, it may be difficult for her to communicate well with patients. She's been in the US for 10 years now, and I don't think her language is going to get a lot better. My worst nightmare is that she'll be accepted in the Caribbean then fail out, and be several thousand dollars in debt. Should I worry about this? Should I encourage or discourage her about going to med school? 😕
I'm hoping for a little advice here. My girlfriend wants to go to medical school and I wonder what you think her chances are. She has a BA in music (or piano performance) from a university in China, where she's originally from, and a MA in piano performance from a university in the US. She hasn't taken the MCAT, but has taken the Kaplan review course (2 or 3 times) and scores about 7-7-8 on their practice MCATs. I don't know her undergrad GPA, but while getting her master's she held near 4.0. She's also taken all the prereq's and overall science is about 3.5.
The biggest deal that I see is her communications skills. English is her second language and it's pretty difficult to express herself clearly outside of a set of comfortable phrases that she's picked up over the years. I mean, I can understand her pretty well, but many other people have a hard time following her. Also, she tends to misunderstand things people say to her, and her writing is very bad.
Because of this, she thinks that her best shot for medical school is the Caribbean. Does anyone think this is reasonable? I'm currently in my second year of MS, and can't imagine her getting through classes as rough as anatomy or pharm, especially with her language skills. Also, on a practical level, it may be difficult for her to communicate well with patients. She's been in the US for 10 years now, and I don't think her language is going to get a lot better. My worst nightmare is that she'll be accepted in the Caribbean then fail out, and be several thousand dollars in debt. Should I worry about this? Should I encourage or discourage her about going to med school? 😕
I wasn't paying attention when I typed up my reply. Then AFTER that, I realized it was an old thread. But I decided to leave my reply here anyway... after all, i already typed it up.
