Originally Posted by MumOfThree
I don't know about the US system, but we are in Australia, where Medicine is generally direct entry from highschool, requiring incredibly high marks AND a second medicine entry exam and interviews. And it most likely requires careful subject choices in highschool - balancing what she will get best marks from and prerequisite subjects for medicine.

In the U.S. we have enough D.O. schools that you pretty much only need a barrel of cash. Or access to federal debt origination.

Plus, there's always the Caribbean.