Taking my medical school prerequisites in Taiwan

Taiwan Living in Taiwan
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I’m interested in medical school in my home USA in the future. But first, I need to take some hard science prerequisites for a year or two.

I COULD take these courses at a state college near my home town, but then I’d be barely making ends meet paying for school, paying rent, maintaining a car.

OR, I could take these classes at a place like NTU here in Taipei for a fraction of the cost, while still teaching English part time and more than supporting myself in a very cosmopolitan city. I can already understand about 80% of all the Mandarin I hear, so I doubt lectures would be a huge problem. Plus science is science no matter where you learn it. I would need to write my labs up in Chinese I presume, but a good scientific English - Chinese dictionary would take care of much of that problem. Many of the science texts used are in English, I hear.

The big questions are:

  1. would US medical schools take these Taiwanese prereqs seriously?
  2. would I be able to find volunteer work in the health care sector as a foreigner in Taiwan?
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WanderingDave,

I wouldn’t risk it. You know college life is more or less a breeze compare to USA undergrad life.

But if you did do. You would have to find out of there is a sister school in the USA that would accept those science credits. This is the toughest part I believe.

The med schools might thinks it weird. But as long as your mcat are decent and you have lab experiene outside of class. It shouldn’t hinder you.