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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]About the # of foreigners in US med schools[/b]: 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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Thread is about importing [b]foreign trained[/b] MDs after flushing out most of our domestic best and brightest during undergrad. We literally push millions of wicked smart American kids into pointless financial services and consulting because they couldn't ace organic chemistry?! It's insanity.[/quote]

I am a PhD not an MD. As part of my grad work, I taught (teaching assistant) and tutored pre-med students in organic chem. I assure you the standards are not too high. Most pre-med students did not have a deep understanding of .org chem (they dealt with it by memorizing). You could always tell the pre-med versus the chem students (or engineering students). Really it’s a pretty low bar to do well on organic chem. I would hope a doctor treating me or my kid could hack it. [/quote]

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