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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]About the # of foreigners in US med schools: my understanding is that US med schools generally won't accept pre-requisites completed at non-US colleges/universities (with very limited exceptions for Canadian and certain UK universities).  So, the only way for a "foreigner" to go to med school in the US is to have also gone to undergrad in US or to have completed pre-reqs (such as in a post-bacc program) in the US.

Not the OP, but my DD is interested in the medical professions.  She has a lot of other interests as well.  Rather than select college specifically for pre-med, we are thinking that she should choose a college based on overall fit for all her interests.  And potentially, just do a post-bacc if she ultimately decides that she wants to go to the med school route.

If undergrad pre-med is so brutal, why do more students not do a post-bacc?  (I'm sure cost is a reason, but we are thinking that a more inexpensive undergrad followed by a "prestigious" post-bacc could cost the same or less than pre-med at a "prestigious" undergrad).

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100% cost.  I'm one of those "STEM aptitude, high IQ" American kids PPs have mentioned who got weeded out of pre-med by undergrad organic chemistry.  There was no way I was going to take out school + COL loans for 2 years of post-bacc/MCAT prep AND med school.  Hindsight being 20/20, I should have either gone to a smaller school with a stronger undergrad teaching faculty in the sciences, or done a biomedical engineering program (which would have ticked all the pre-req boxes).
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