NO one cares what foreign med school you went too!!!
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The only thing they care about is your board score and that your grades mirrow hhow you did on the boards. Trust me if you got straight C's in a carribean school and got a 240 on step 1 one may step back and call it a fluke. Get good grades and a good score, the name of the school is inconsequential unless the guy interveiwing you went to that school. Your ERAS application will show it all. Right now at least at Harbor and Union In Baltimore the Saba scores are kicking major ass as my class and apparently the one before had some major high scores so right now Saba is a legend. However this Im sure will cycle and Ross or AUC or St. Georges will take the spot light for a time. Saba has to its credit kicked out some good students and beleive me there is absolutely no difference in how we are looked at to how St. Georges is looked at. I have to be honest if I could not go to SAba or MUA I consider going to ST. Christophers in England. I have been rotating with many students and have heard nothing but decent comments overall. That is another impressive school who is an up and comer with a decent home office that seems to know what the heck they are doing. In a matter of 6 years it also has a tremendous US clinical list. HOwever it is expensive to live and England and Saba living is dirt cheap. You are not going to get a room in England for 250-300 a month like on SABA. Saba is extremely reasonable and probably one of the cheapest islands to live on down there. But apparently back on the subject of St. Christophers.....They recently got some sort approval of European or British Approval which apparently makes them recognized to a greater degree. If dollar and cents matter and you want US clincals my ranking would be 1. Saba 2. MUA 3. St Christophers. If money is no object 1. St. Georges 2. Saba 3. Ross (you gotta like the fact 5th smemester is in Miami :) 4. MUA 5. St. Christophers 6. AUC (mainly because of an overwhelming student dissatisfaction which continues even as I talk to AUC students here at Harbor and Union.
Posted on Oct 9, 2002, 7:45 AM from IP address 207.19.126.2
