近期遇到几个本科阶段医学相关专业的同学咨询我申请美国医学院的问题。他们之中的许多或因为国内专业质量，或因为学制问题，或因为希冀追求更好的职业发展环境萌发了前往美国医学院深造的想法。但是你或许发现了这样的问题，当你查询百度，或者咨询中介机构的时候，你得到最多的回答是，“你申请不了医学院。”然而，实际情况是这样的吗？

    在普渡大学，学校对国际学生申请医学院的状况做了这样的描述。“对于非美国永久居住者，也就是持有绿卡者来说，想要进入美国的医学院相当困难。”到底是什么原因导致难申请呢？实际上，他们认为，“国际学生没有足够的资金完成医学院的学习。”要知道，在美国，学生要想完成医学院的学习，大部分本土学生都需要靠scholarship和政府贷款完成。一般美国的医学院每年会产生$40000左右的学费支出，另外教材还要耗费大约$2000每年，所以4年医学院的学习，对于普通家庭来说，从经济角度而言，是非常重的负担。上世纪八九十年代，美国许多医学院对国际学生开放，但是不少申请者因为资金问题中途辍学，这对学校而言，是非常大的损失，所以现今开放的学校少是有原因的。但是你或许还在纠结那个问题，老师，我到底能不能申请？我的回答是，可以。有不少学校还是开放申请名额给国际学生的。那么针对开放名额给国际学生的学校，想申请的人，如此巨大的一笔支出，是不是有机会可以得到奖学金呢？我的回答是，很难。

    一般联邦政府奖学金和贷款只针对美国公民，永久居民开放。国际学生必须在申请的时候出示全额资金证明的。有的学校甚至在决定是否录取你之前，要求你把涵盖四年全部costs的这部分资金做第三方托管，以便你就读中间资金链断掉。确实也有学校给条件合格的国际学生提供一些privately-funded，你也可以申请一些private loan。如果真的申请的话，申请人一般情况是需要找一个美国公民和你联合签署贷款申请书。不难看出，这是一种降低违约风险的手段。

    具体到录取方面，不同学校对国际学生在政策上各有不同。 有些学校提及的国际学生概念只指加拿大国籍学生。而大部分开放名额的学校希望你入读的时候能够提供4-20万美金的资金证明。根据美国医学院协会AAMC发布的数据，2003年，有16538名国际学生申请美国医学院，559人被录取，最终入读的只有82人。2012年的时候，1378名国际学生申请人，183人被录取。为了方便大家了解目前美国医学院对国际学生的申请资格要求，在此列举出不接收国际学生和接收国际学生的名单。

不接收国际学生的医学院名单：

U. of Alabama School of Medicine
U. of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix
U. of Arizona College of Medicine-Tucson
U. of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine
U. of California, Irvine School of Medicine
U. of California, Riverside School of Medicine
U. of California, San Diego School of Medicine
Frank H. Netter MD School of Medicine at Quinnipiac U.
Florida Atlantic U. Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine
Florida International U. Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Florida State U. College of Medicine
U. of Central Florida College of Medicine
U. of Florida College of Medicine
U. of Miami Miller School of Medicine
U. of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine
Medical College of Georgia at Georgia Regents U.
Mercer U. School of Medicine
Morehouse School of Medicine
Loyola U. Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Rush Medical College of Rush U. Medical Center
Southern Illinois U. School of Medicine
U. of Illinois College of Medicine
Indiana U. School of Medicine
U. of Iowa Roy J. and Lucille A. Carver College of Medicine
U. of Kansas School of Medicine
Louisiana State U. Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Shreveport
Uniformed Services U. of the Health Sciences F. Edward Hébert School of Medicine
U. of Massachusetts Medical School
U. of Michigan Medical School
Western Michigan U. School of Medicine
U. of Mississippi School of Medicine
U. of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine
U. of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
U. of Nebraska College of Medicine
U. of Nevada School of Medicine
Cooper Medical School of Rowan University
U. of New Mexico School of Medicine
Albany Medical College
Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine at Hofstra U.
SUNY Downstate Medical Center College of Medicine
U. at Buffalo State U. of New York School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
U. of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry
The Brody School of Medicine at East Carolina U.
Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
U. of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Medical U.
The Ohio State U. College of Medicine
U. of Cincinnati College of Medicine
The U. of Toledo College of Medicine
Wright State U. Boonshoft School of Medicine
U. of Oklahoma College of Medicine
Oregon Health & Science U. School of Medicine
The Commonwealth Medical College
Drexel U. College of Medicine
Temple U. School of Medicine
Ponce School of Medicine
U. of Puerto Rico School of Medicine
Medical U. of South Carolina College of Medicine
U. of South Carolina School of Medicine
U. of South Carolina School of Medicine-Greenville
U. of South Dakota Sanford School of Medicine
U. of Tennessee Health Science Center College of Medicine
Texas A&M U. System Health Science Center College of Medicine
Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center at El Paso Paul L. Foster School of Medicine
Texas Tech U. Health Sciences Center School of Medicine
U. of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston
U. of Texas School of Medicine at San Antonio
U. of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas Southwestern Medical School
U. of Vermont College of Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine
U. of Washington School of Medicine
Marshall U. Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
West Virginia U. School of Medicine
U. of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health

只接收加拿大国际学生的医学院名单：

Louisiana State U. School of Medicine in New Orleans
U. of Maryland School of Medicine
Central Michigan U. College of Medicine
Michigan State U. College of Human Medicine
Oakland U. William Beaumont School of Medicine
Wayne State U. School of Medicine
Mayo Medical School
New York Medical College
New York U. School of Medicine
East Tennessee State U. James H. Quillen College of Medicine
Meharry Medical College School of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth U. School of Medicine

下面是大家最想看到的，接收国际学生的医学院：

U. of South Alabama College of Medicine
Keck School of Medicine of the U. of Southern California

Loma Linda U. School of Medicine
Stanford U. School of Medicine
U. of California, Davis School of Medicine
U. of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

U. of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
U. of Colorado Denver School of Medicine
U. of Connecticut School of Medicine
Yale U. School of Medicine
The George Washington U. School of Medicine and Health Sciences
Georgetown University School of Medicine
Howard U. College of Medicine
Emory U. School of Medicine
U. of Hawaii John A. Burns School of Medicine

Chicago Medical School at Rosalind Franklin U. of Medicine and Science

Northwestern U. Feinberg School of Medicine
U. of Chicago Division of the Biological Sciences, The Pritzker School of Medicine
U. of Kentucky College of Medicine
U. of Louisville School of Medicine
Tulane U. School of Medicine
Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
Boston U. School of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Tufts U. School of Medicine
U. of Minnesota Medical School
Saint Louis U. School of Medicine

Washington U. in St. Louis School of Medicine
Creighton U. School of Medicine
Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth
UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School
UMDNJ-Robert Wood Johnson
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva U.
Columbia U. College of Physicians and Surgeons

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Stony Brook U. School of Medicine

SUNY Upstate Medical U.
Weill Cornell Medical College

Duke U. School of Medicine
U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine
Case Western Reserve U. School of Medicine
Jefferson Medical College of Thomas Jefferson U.
Pennsylvania State U. College of Medicine
Raymond and Ruth Perelman School of Medicine at the U. of Pennsylvania

U. of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

San Juan Bautista School of Medicine
Universidad Central del Caribe School of Medicine
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University
Vanderbilt U. School of Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
U. of Texas Medical School at Houston
U. of Utah School of Medicine
U. of Virginia School of Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin

     对于部分未来希望参加医学院research-oriented programs的国际学生，开放申请的医学院可能会提供joint MD/PhD 项目，这样的话，只要带你做研究的导师有资金，he/she是可以资助你完成整个4年学习的。

    稍后我会发一篇帖子，分析全美各大医学院针对国际学生的录取政策。有心的同学可以持续关注。