McMaster Health Sciences - future in US grad schools?

llamalampshade
Sun, 18 May 2014 02:28:27 +0000

I’ve recently made the decision to go to McMaster’s Bachelor of Health Sciences program (well known in Canada) over UC Berkeley for premed, mostly because Berkeley will be expensive for me as an out of state student and because I’ve heard not so great things about the molecular cell bio major (in terms of competitiveness). Mcmaster health sci on the other hand fosters a collaborative environment, is way cheaper, and has better professional/grad/med school placement than Berkeley when looking at the data for the MCB major.

However, I’m still interested in going to US grad schools after mcmaster, so I was wondering, since McMaster does not have such a big name in the US, will that hurt my chances of getting into US grad schools? I know grad schools in the states do not accept many international students, but I have dual citizenship, which makes me eligible for the student loans I’d have to take out for grad school.

But since my undergrad would be considered “international” does that make me international for admissions purposes?