yea thaks a lot guys. yea the sat is pretty much an iq test and doesnt test any real knowledge. i took many ap tests, 8 so far, and have gotten 4 in stats 3 in english and 3 in history (didnt study for history) and just took physics b, english lit, spanish lit, calc ab, and u.s. govt and those are of course a many more times difficult than the sat because they test for knowledge, but with taking tests such as those, do you guys feel that i am prepared for an australian med school?

Graduates of most of the major Australian schools are eligible for CA licensure. I know that Queensland, Flinders, Sydney, Melbourne, UNSW, Monash, and U of Western Australia graduates are eligible for licensure in California. Up until recently Australian graduates were eligible for licensure in the UK without taking the GMC exam.

As for Bond, Griffith, Notre Dame, and ANU graduates, I am not sure as those are all new schools.

From http://www.medbd.ca.gov/Applicant_Sc...Recognized.htm :

University of Adelaide Medical School
University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine
University of Sydney Faculty of Medicine
The University of Queensland Medical School
University of Western Australia School of Medicine
Monash University Faculty of Medicine
University of New South Wales Faculty of Medicine
University of Tasmania Faculty of Medicine
The Flinders University of South Australia
University of Newcastle Faculty of Medicine

Can't say for sure why the newish schools aren't on there (JCU, ANU, Notre Dame, Griffith and Bond), except it looks like approval is done in response to application (i.e., when students care, school applies, Cali determines eligibility)...but schools recognized in their own country aren't normally a problem in Ca -- it's mainly most of the Carib (except the big 3 i think) and other "offshore" schools that have problems.

-pitman