Direct Admit vs. Accelerated vs. Traditional

mcat2
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 14:53:13 +0000

upper Ivy med schools were signicantly harder than UG to get into due to internationals and other goals of the Med schools.



This could be true when the mission of such a med school is heavily oriented to one or a few specific areas (e.g., favor those applicants more into a science researcher, or social activists, etc.) Because of these specific missions, they could even more heavily emphasize qualifications besides stats. Some med schools flat-out disclaim they are mostly interested in grooming future leaders in the medicine (here in US as well as in other country which badly needs medical services – thus their interests in recruiting some “true” internationals who may go back to their home country and will potentially have a high impact in medicine there, not here, in their life time. They have little interests in recruiting internationals who are mostly interested in becoming a mere practicing doctor in US. (e.g., They definitely do not like those who were grown up in US and went to schools in US mostly and only had a stint on an international missionary as a part of their applications because they had a better connection over there.)