Chance Me for EA Rutgers, Fordham and RD Princeton: International Pre-Med, 3.75 GPA 1460 SAT

Some graduate entry programs in Scotland and Ireland (Republic) are open to graduates of a 4-year US college.

France has a secondary admission process : you’re admitted to premed 1st year then have another exam to admit you to med school at the end of that 1st year.
Getting into the first year is not too difficult as long as you have As in science subjects (AP equivalents would be AP Chem, AP Bio, AP Physics 1, AP Calc AB and AP Stats). For that first year, you’re in a LAS program or in a PASS program, depending on what you chose.
LAS means Major of your choice+Health minor: you can be enrolled in any subject and you have to do well in it with as little work as possible because you need to spend all your time studying your Health minor where you’ll be ranked - you should be top 5-6 per subject. PASS means 2/3 program is health-related and 1/3 is regular science and you need to be top 20%.
You apply to 10 programs with some LAS and some PASS, with your list including at least some non Parisian universities (which prioritize students from the Paris area).
At the end of your first semester there are major exams and the bottom 20% in the Health minor or the PASS program are cut and second semester must switch to full time in whatever subject they’d chosen in addition to Health. At the end of second semester there are exams on everything covered during the year, plus an oral which can be anything from Name Yeye singers to Name some of Mao’s policies to How does Newton’s second law apply to z. There’s free and fee charging tutoring and many students start tutoring in August before classes start. Poitiers Med is well-known for its tutoring program.
The government tells each Med school how many doctors are needed for their region and the med school admits accordingly. After that you start professional training, rotations, etc. If you aren’t admitted then, you have to complete your BS and may apply again after 3 years.

Obviously having a biochem degree from the US would make a lot of 1st year classes easy (and if that advantage didn’t allow you to make it into Med school compared to students right out of HS, then Med school wasn’t in the cards in the first place).
There’s a direct admission process for graduates in specific subjects but I don’t know much about it.

The B2 certificate is very, very good. You could likely complete continue with French straight into junior-level classes.

Fordham just got a huge donation for science.
Case Western is fantastic for all your interests.
Make sure to apply to Honors whenever possible.
You’re admitted for sure at most of your EA colleges.
Rutgers’split campus is a bother (just recently another international student brought it up: they picked Rutgers for proximity to NYC even though I’d mentioned the problem and now find the day to day problems due to the split campus annoying to overwhelming. It really does impact their ability to integrate into campus life and they plan to transfer. They’re not in the Honors college though, which is more cohesive right off the bat. Beware of the Honors deadline.)
Your reaches are definitely within reach - your profile is impressive.
In addition, I’m guessing your school and your name will help tip the scales at one of your reaches - but even if not you’ll have excellent choices from the EA round.

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