I’ve looked into it personally but its not really my call in a way? My parents still want me to all the places I can apply to outside the continent for med school and I don’t think they would consider letting me apply locally until I get rejected from everywhere else because they think I’m being pessimistic.
I’m Nigerian but I schooled in Ghana and my school before moving to my AP program which is in Nigeria, and my old school is a feeder school for very good STEM schools with med schools, namely KNUST. So when all else fails I think I’ll apply there because the barrier for entry isn’t very high once you’ve schooled abroad.
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.
Why are you applying to U of Calgary if your family is rankings-conscious? It is consistently ranked lower than UOttawa, which is a much better choice for a student who wants to be fluent in French by the end of their undergrad (you can do your Biochemistry degree in French at UOttawa). Going to U of T, UBC, or U of Calgary, you will NOT wind up fluent in French by the end of your degree.
I also want to restate that unless you are a Permanent Resident of Canada, it’s not worth your time to plan on applying to medical schools here, and it’s becoming more difficult to obtain PR here every year, as obtaining permanent residency is based on a points system. Are you prepared to spend at least a few years post-graduation here doing work that is NOT in the field of medicine to even have the CHANCE to apply for permanent residency, with no guarantees that you will be awarded PR (which you need to obtain before you can even apply to medical school)? I went to school in a field with very small programs (I’m an actor, my degree is in Musical Theatre, there were 9 people total in my freshman class) and even I wouldn’t take that gamble.
My parents had originally agreed for me to apply to 4 schools in canada and I’d wanted to do both but my father changed the number to 3 the same day I paid my Ucalgary application fee. He says UBC and OFT are non-negotiable for me to apply to. And as far as the canadian residency thing goes, I’ll take that into consideration because I don’t think I’m willing to do that.
