SGU Match rate is 46%. Oh, and why am so sure ? we will get to that
1) I am quite certain I am the only one SDN who not only followed the growth of Caribbean schools from their inception in 1976 to the present, including several years in the early 1990's when I both was analyzing and advising them as part of the healthcare team for an investment bank (led by a former Exec Dean of a medical school). I have been to more of their campuses that I can count. I am sure I am the only one on here who can claimed attending Federal HEW (predecessor of HHS) committee meeting on foreign medical schools and have keen idea of how they work financial and politically
2) My comment on SOAP is exactly what was stated, under "just to add", and make no claims, whether implied or explicit that it refers solely to SGU
3) I am likely also the only advisor on here who does not give a blanket "never attend" but repeats the same phrase:
as I've said often, before considering
any offshore school applicant must go through at least
two application cycles for both MD and DO with at
least a year break in between (ie skip a cycle) for application repair and/or enhancement. the break is necessary to analyze and understand the weaknesses in an application. Repair may be as simple as reorganizing rewriting application or it may require postbacc, SMP, MCAT, or additional extracurricular such as clinical volunteering and other items. I strongly advise that no student should consider off shore schools until the above has been done.
4) Now the numbers on SGU
I have written about this extensively throughout the forums.
about 46% of those who start medical school, match into ANY residency as my analysis of SGU, perhaps the "best" of the Carib schools, will show. Please note these numbers come from the SGU website.
SGU reports that analyzes that 93% place (not match) in residency
A) Enrollment and Residency:
Enrollment, MCAT & GPA Statistics | SGU Medical School
SGU SOM reports just under 6300 total enrollment in an MD program. This would mean roughly that 1600 students a year are MS1-MS4 or approximately 800 students a term. (whether students are in a dual degree and/or take more than 4 years to graduate, on average, this number will remain about the same). Of these 75% are US citizens and 17% are US PR, so 87% total US. Additionally 11% of total enrollment are Canadian, though many . It is reasonable to say then that about 90% of entering Students (about 1450) would likely seek medical residency in USA. SGU Reports that 961 have “US Residencies in 2019.“ So what has happened to these 500 others?
B) Attrition:
https://www.aamc.org/system/files/r...tesandattritionratesofu.s.medicalstudents.pdf
From 1993-1994 through 2012-2013, more medical students left medical school for nonacademic than for academic reasons,... The total national attrition rate remained relatively stable at an average of 3.3% over those 20 years.
So US MD schools have a 3.3% attrition rate, meaning 96.7% ultimately earn their degree. For SGU, they report “6.1% attrition rate for the class entering in August of 2017.” Assuming, that this up to date, it would mean of our 1450 Anticipated US Residency bound students, 90 dropped out after the first 2 years, leaving at least 1360 to continue. Also with the way that SGU reports this, we cant tell if any took leaves, needed another year, dropped out later, etc. We can only speculate that fewer additional percent dropped out in years 3-4. For purposes of comparison, lets assume a conservative total attrition of 10% for any entering class. With a weaker overall class (MCAT average of 497, cGPA of 3.3, sGPA of 3.1), and living overseas, 10% would be very conservative. So about 1225 would be left in our US-bound residency cohort
C) Medical Residency:
Graduate Success | St. George's University
SGU proudly states that 961 graduates got placed(not matched) in residencies. Now placement means via NRMP, post-match SOAP, any pre-match positions, openings that occur during the cycle Looking at their data further, 935 were placed in US, with others in Canada, UK, and a few other countries. So of the estimated 1225 graduates who sought US residencies, 935 got a slot, or about 76%. SGU also reports that on average 29% get slots via non-match methods. That would mean 664 graduates matched. So of the estimate 1450 US-residency bound students who start SGU, only 664 or 46% matched into a residency slot. That increases to about 65% who get ANY residency slot.
In sum, assuming 10% class attrition, the “success rate” of SGU is at best is 65%
Hopefully this has been even a little help to you! Wishing you all the very best on your journey 
