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Getting into US medical schools wasn't easy for them. Now international students are smoothing the path for others

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Getting into US medical schools wasn't easy for them. Now international students are smoothing the path for others STAT Long before Azan Virji entered medical school, a college counselor back home in Tanzania tried to dissuade him from coming to the U.S. to pursue a medical degree. The odds, he was told, would not be in his favor. Fewer than 3% of medical school applicants in the U.S. are international students, and only 0.5% of all medical school enrollees are from abroad. But because Virji, now a second-year student at Harvard Medical School, had always aspired to become a physician and knew the quality of the schools here in the U.S., he kept on. READ MORE

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