Premed at Cambridge

Elleneast
Wed, 20 Apr 2011 09:55:35 +0000

I know someone who just went through this process with a top-drawer Oxbridge undergrad degree plus MSc. American medical schools like to compare apples to apples when it comes to coursework. It was recommended to this student by deans at two top US medical schools that he/she should come to the US and do a one year Master’s before applying so that schools would have something to work with when comparing this student to other candidates. It sounds as if your plan is possible though I would think that you will have to take a year off because you will need US coursework in hand to apply and you won’t be doing that until your fourth year.

Cambridge and Oxford are wonderful academically but if you want to go to med school in the US you will be beating your head against a wall unless you plan on taking a US graduate degree before applying. I did hear rumors that Harvard will start entertaining Oxbridge educated applicants next year but I do not know if that is true.