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applying to harvard med school from the uk (international applicant)

I need some advice on applying to harvard university for medicine and I know there is a lot of exams to take so what do i do idk , someone help !!

Reply 1

junior.doctor

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It would probably be helpful if your questions were more specific. What do you need help with? What makes you want to go to the US for medicine, do you have links there and plan to move there long term?

Presumably to be wanting to go to Harvard, you know a bit about the US med school system and that in the US, medicine is a postgrad degree. What degree are you doing? Assuming you are a UK student, it’s very hard to find a UK degree that meets the US equivalent of pre-med in terms of all the varied science content...

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shum1614

OP

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Original post by junior.doctor

It would probably be helpful if your questions were more specific. What do you need help with? What makes you want to go to the US for medicine, do you have links there and plan to move there long term?

Presumably to be wanting to go to Harvard, you know a bit about the US med school system and that in the US, medicine is a postgrad degree. What degree are you doing? Assuming you are a UK student, it’s very hard to find a UK degree that meets the US equivalent of pre-med in terms of all the varied science content...

Basiccally I need help applying , like I am really unsure about the mcat ect , like assume i dont know anything about the admission process , my situation is right now , doing A-levels with a couple of A*'s and A's at GCSE and hoepuflly in the summer for a levels I will get A*A*A*A , but I know i need to be prepared before then , so now what ?

Reply 3

BF19

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Original post by shum1614

Basiccally I need help applying , like I am really unsure about the mcat ect , like assume i dont know anything about the admission process , my situation is right now , doing A-levels with a couple of A*'s and A's at GCSE and hoepuflly in the summer for a levels I will get A*A*A*A , but I know i need to be prepared before then , so now what ?

Have you applied to any pre-med universities in the US? Are you in year 13? If you want to really become a physician in the US, you'd be better off applying for an acceptable science based course in the US for pre-med, from where you'll take the MCAT and apply to medical universities in the US as a postgraduate degree.
In terms of applications, have you applied to any UK institutions or are taking a gap year? If not there is the option of you applying for medicine in the UK, taking the USMLE step 1 during your medical course, then steps 2 and 3, and then directly applying for a residency in the US as an IMG. However this process is much harder and the chances of success are relatively lower. There is also an issue of visa/green card, which is quite difficult to apply for unless you have direct relatives who live in the US...

Reply 4

shum1614

OP

14

I am in year 13 , so do I need to do an undergrad degree to apply?? and this whole process is just so ''wishy-washy'' very vague no idea where to go or what to do and there are so many routes, know any website which explain all this ?

Reply 5

AzureCeleste

20

Original post by shum1614

I am in year 13 , so do I need to do an undergrad degree to apply?? and this whole process is just so ''wishy-washy'' very vague no idea where to go or what to do and there are so many routes, know any website which explain all this ?

Why are you wanting to go the US for medicine?

Reply 6

shum1614

OP

14

stanford or Harvard medical school

Original post by AzureCeleste

Why are you wanting to go the US for medicine?

Reply 7

AzureCeleste

20

Original post by shum1614

stanford or Harvard medical school

Not where but why

You will end up in hundreds of thousands of pounds of debt and no guaranteed job at the end of it (unlike in the UK (for the moment at least))

Reply 8

junior.doctor

18

Original post by shum1614

Basiccally I need help applying , like I am really unsure about the mcat ect , like assume i dont know anything about the admission process , my situation is right now , doing A-levels with a couple of A*'s and A's at GCSE and hoepuflly in the summer for a levels I will get A*A*A*A , but I know i need to be prepared before then , so now what ?

There is plenty of information out there. If you've not yet even managed to understand that medicine in the US is a postgrad degree, then there is plenty of your own research that you can do on the internet before coming back here with specific questions.

Bear in mind though that UK students going to the US to study medicine is very unusual, and so you're unlikely to find many people here who know much about it. Most people who do so, have links in the US (family etc) or another reason to be there long term. Presumably you want to live there long term? Or does doing medicine at Harvard just sound prestigious and that's what's attracting you?

How do you plan to finance this?

Reply 9

dandoe

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its postgraduate. Did you not do any research ???

Original post by shum1614

I am in year 13 , so do I need to do an undergrad degree to apply?? and this whole process is just so ''wishy-washy'' very vague no idea where to go or what to do and there are so many routes, know any website which explain all this ?

applying to harvard med school from the uk (international applicant)

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