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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such a weird post.

For one - lots of college students decide that they don’t want to go into medicine for a lot of different reasons. Some of them are very good students. M

For two literally anyone can apply to med school. You take the prerequisite classes, which could be taken at community college after you graduate, then you take the MCAT and you apply. No one is tying this woman’s hands and keeping her from applying are they?

If you score highly on the MCAT, show significant intellectual curiosity and have a good record of [i]working [/i] in some kind of job (volunteering counts, but it needs to be significant) then you are a good candidate. 
Your grades at a top 10 that grades harshly finishes after the above items, though it is expected that you were an excellent student. Does it matter if you get some B’s? Not really.

Thirdly how come no one has mentioned osteopath school? My friend has been studying for two years in hopes of med school. Her MCAT’s did not make the cut for a US med school, but she was accepted in a doctor of Osteopathic medicine program.

Fourthly - could your dear children not go to a foreign med school if only med school will do? Or are they not qualified for admission to those either?[/quote]

DO (osteopathic) schools were mentioned earlier in the thread.  These are increasingly a good option for those with lower GPAs and/or MCATs.  DO students take the same USMLEs as MD students.

They are an especially good option for those who want to do primary care.  Even so, if you do really well in DO and on the USMLEs, you have a reasonable shot at the more coveted residencies like surgery because residency slots outstrip medical/DO graduates.

Foreign medical schools like those in the Caribbean are a gamble.  They are more expensive than US schools and students get weeded far more than at US medical or DO schools (which are taking people who already have survived undergraduate weeding out in reasonable standing).  It is far harder to get a shot at a US residency coming out of the Caribbean.[/quote]

We absolutely need a lot more good primary care doctors. 
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