FOR IVETTE

[Merocks14]

Hello Ivette

I have a couple of questions for you, your feedback would be greatly appreciated.

1.) What is the max amount I can borrrow for pre med?

2.) If I was to do my pre-med at UCE, could I transfer the credits to UNIBE to do med program?

3.) If I have to do pre-med in the U.S. what is the best way to make sure ALL of the credits are convalidated? If so, what is the best program to study under?

[Ivette]

Hello,

I'm going to try and answer your questions, but they should be directed to Financial Aid and Admissions:

1) Premed students can get between $2,625 - $10,500, it depends on many things, they have to look into your case in particular to give you a definite amount
2) You CAN transfer, but to be honest, we don't recommend school hopping.
3)I can't really answer the last question, to know what convalidates with our program, you should have our catalog and compare. Try to contact Yasmira Rosario, she's the Admissions officer, her email is yrosario@unibe.edu.do or call her at

Toll Free 1-800-977-7231
From USA (800)203-3562
From Canada (800)265-3266
In DR (809)689-4111 xt205


Glad to help!

[ojmdc]

Hello,

Something you might want to consider when trying to get completed coursework convalidated in the DR is the quality of the undergraduate bulletin of your university. In my case, my schools bulletin contained 2 or 3 line descriptions of each course offered by the university. With such poor descriptions it is easy for schools to turn down your requests for convalidations. When they are making the determination of whether or not to transfer a class, in theory they are looking at their detailed course description and comparing it to the one you provided them. If they match 80% or more then they will likely convalidate the course provided you obtained a satisfactory grade (C or better) It my advice to those in this situation to provide, along with the undergrad bulletin, a detailed course description and syllabus sealed by the corresponding department at your university. Don't give the people here an easy excuse to deny you courses you've already completed. Provide them with as much material as you can to help them make a decision in your favor.

For those who are presently completing pre-med or who are about to start premed, I recommend that you request from UNIBE a DETAILED course description for all the pre-med classes, orgo, math, biology, physics and their labs. With these in hand, shop around for a local university/college whose equivalent courses match in course content as much as possible. If you see that the only school in town or the only school you can attend offers courses that vary significantly in course content you might want to reconsider. Remember that the schools here are just itching for you to spend that extra year and 4 months in premed giving them your dollars. They will not make it easy for you to get these courses convalidated. So if the only school in town offers these premed courses and their descriptions vary significantly from those at UNIBE or whichever school you're applying at, play dumb and provide the most generalized course decriptions you can find from your school, the bulletin ussually does the trick.

There is nothing dishonest about this, let me tell you why. Pre-med is designed primarily to weed out pre-med students. Little of the course material you learn in premed save for some concepts in organic abnd inorganic chemistry will reappear again in your medical education in a totally new way. If you have a solid analiytical background and have completed pre-med in the states there is absolutely no reason you should have to repeat it in the DR because their requirements vary from those in the states. It might be fair for you to concede to that edict and take the pre-med courses that the dominicans take if and only if you were paying the same amount the dominicans are paying. You wont. you will many many times what they pay, and so long as there is a special rate for foreign students, there should be special concessions and leeway given these students for coursework already complete. Help yourself in thsi matter by carefully considering the courses you take and the materials you provide the school you're applying to. Make sure they are all original and sealed documents from your university so there is no doubt about forgery or anything of the like. No one here will stick up for your best interests, you have to do that yourself. So watch you back and use your head, this application process can be more like a poker game than you might think. Never tip your hand. Take care and God Bless.
Ozzie.