Most students, parents, and, most importantly, advisors, do not know or understand the real statistics that go with these schools. Most of these have absolutely no idea how rotations work nor have even the slightly clue how medical residency works. So many of these students who go in, not with eyes wide open about chances but wearing rose colored glasses provided by the schools, and do so knowing that any debt the students incur is the goverment's problem . I do not blame the students for this but the schools . My purpose on here is to provide prospective applicants with real information and data so they can make a decision. And am one of the few on here who doesnt dismiss these schools completely. as I've said many times, before considering any offshore school, an applicant should 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.
