US Medical Schools for International Students

School	State	Int'l	Total	MCAT
Albany	NY	3/yr	135	31.3
Albert Einstein	NY	6	180	31.8
Baylor	TX	4	168	34.5
Boston U	MA	4	155	32
Brown	RI	2	73	34
Case Western	OH	10	167	34
Columbia	NY	5	149	35
Connecticut	CT	3	79	33
Cornell	NY	2	101	35
Creighton	NE	0	125	30
Dartmouth	NH	6	82	34
Duke	NC	5	101	36
East Virginia	VA	2	110	30
Emory	GA	2	113	35
Georgetown	DC	4	190	31
Harvard	MA	11	165	35
Howard	DC	11	116	25
Indiana	IN	5	280	30
Keck, USC	CA	4	171	34
Kentucky	KY	3	103	30
Loma Linda	CA	11	171	29
Mayo	MN	0	43	33
Med Coll of Wis	WI	3	204	30
Meharry	TN	2	85	25
Minnesota	MN	9	220	31
Mount Sinai	NY	2	123	35
Northwestern	IL	8	171	35
NY Medical	NY	2	186	31
NYU	NY	3	160	35
Penn State	PA	10	135	31
Rosalind Franklin	IL	9	185	29
Saint Louis	MI	7	153	31
South Alabama	AL	1	68	30
Stanford	CA	2	85	35
Stony Brook	NY	4	101	32
SUNY Upstate	NY	6	153	31
Thomas Jefferson	PA	6	254	31
Tufts	MA	2	168	34
Tulane	LA	3	155	30
U Chic	IL	5	104	34
UC Davis	CA	1	93	32
UCLA	CA	2	170	32
UCSF	CA	0	153	34
Upenn	PA	4	147	35
Utah	UT	2	102	29
Vanderbilt	TN	6	105	35
Vermont	VT	2	101	30
Virginia	VA	1	141	33
Wake Forest	NC	10	109	30
Wash U	MI	4	123	38
Yale	CT	8	100	35

Welcome to this blog.

I am an international student who came to the US for his undergraduate education back in 2003. Most of my friends went to England for medical school as you can get in straight after A-levels or IB or its high school equivalent. I wanted to be different. I wanted to get a good undergraduate experience and pursue my (many) other interests before I started medical school.

This complicates the path a little bit more. I knew I had to work hard in undergrad and do well. Getting into medical school in the US is hard enough for a US citizen. Getting into medical school for a foreigner is even harder. Less than half of the medical schools in the US accept international students. That is a fact that we have to live with.

Sounds scary right?

Well, it is a little. I wanted to lay the facts down as this is how I felt while I was applying to medical school. I think it is extremely important to be realistic about the difficulty of the process.

Yes, it is doable, but again not easy. I am one example of this. And know of several other students who have succeeded. My goal is not to discourage you, but to give you a perspective into what this process really entails and what you can do to have the best shot at getting into medical school in the US as an international student.

I did a LOT of research when I was applying. Trying to find out what medical schools even accepted international students was a painful process.

Currently a third year medical student, I came across some of the research I did back in 2006 (when I was applying) and thought it makes a whole lot of sense to share that with anyone that might be in similar shoes.

I will post the information (with up to date links) that I gathered. All this information is from the perspective of one student. Please talk to multiple people about this process.

Feel free to let me know if you want me to focus on any specific aspect of the process.