<p>Since you won’t have any “instate public” options, you’ll likely need to apply to more SOMs than those who have state residency. </p>
<p>Five schools will not likely be enough in your case…not at all. And, right now, we don’t know your MCAT.</p>
<p>Also, not sure, but some SOMs might require that applicants take some pre-med pre-reqs in the US…so that may eliminate some choices. </p>
<p>As for interviews…Domestic kids face the same issue for traveling and missing school. It’s nice when interviews fall on Mondays or Fridays, but no one can count on that. </p>
<p>You might try arranging your Fall semester classes so that you don’t have classes all 5 days. Then you’ll miss less classes. </p>
<p>If your school is near the US border, then maybe it would help if you applied to SOMs that are relatively close across the US border.</p>