RCSI Demographics of student body?

[iwantajob]

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Hi everyone! I just have a question for current RCSI students (or any other Atlantic Bridge schools). What is the demographics in a typical class? (what % or # are Canadian, American, Irish, and Middle Eastern?). I was looking through YouTube and other websites and it appears that a large majority of the students are Iranian or Muslim and very few are North American or from Ireland.

I've also been reading through several posts and I'm getting conflicting info. Can any current RCSI students give info on the student body makeup?

 

[HQvhs]

A very rough approximation in my experience is about 40-50 Irish, nearly 100 Canadians, 60 Malaysians (from PMC, shared with UCD), a handful from the US (however GEP is mostly American I think), a handful from the UK, Australia, Norway, and other countries. There are also quite a few Middle Easterns too although I don't know of many Iranians specifically, they mostly seem to be from UAE, Jordan and Egypt I think.
Hope this helps!

 

[iwantajob]

Ah, thanks for the info HQvhs. By Iranians I meant Arabs or Middle Easterners, the only Arabs I knew were from Iran so I often interchange the two but thats a mistake on my part.

I was watching some of the YouTube videos featuring culture night and there were videos for Malaysians, Arabs, there appeared to be a few Canadians but I was wondering, where are the Irish? There was also a graduation night video and it appeared that 90% of the students were Arabs so I was getting a little confused. I don't want to be the only non-Arab in that school. Diversity is good!

 

[HQvhs]

Trust me, you definitely wouldn't be the only non-arab! I'd hazard a guess and say that maybe 1/3 of the year comes from arabic countries. But remember, that a lot of Canadians and Americans may be of Arab descent, although they are no more arabic than me and you!
The diversity in the college is one of the best things about it I think. I'm Irish, and Ireland is, on the whole, a very homologous country, so coming to this college has certainly broadened my horizons and raised my awareness of the world out there. And the coming together of so many different cultures certainly makes the atmosphere a lot richer and more varied.
It was one of the reasons I chose the college above the other Irish med schools.