St. George a 5 year med program?? what??

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I read that St. George is 5 year program....but it could be completed in 4 years . How is this possible ? does anyone know....Do you have to like give up a summer or two to fit it in 4 years?????

 

[pre-med lost]

It's really a 4-yr program but they end up charging you for five-years! They have a complicated fee structure that works out to paying for five-years when the program is really set up to be a 4-yr model. It's just another way to scam students, something all too common amongest the Carib. schools. No matter what, they'll find a way to make students part with the money they don't have.

 

[Apollyon]

It's a ruse...don't worry - 4 years. No extra. I asked Jane Sutter point blank, and she gave me some BS answer that just bounced off me.

The "real" answer they might give is that it is 5 years to satisfy the UK concerns. So as to not scare off US applicants, it's 4 years.

Oh, I remember - Jane Sutter said it had something to do with financial aid - that you needed 20 week semesters or something like that - she said, "You don't want to be in school for 10 months straight, do you" or the like....funny, that's just how it turned out. Our whole program is 156 weeks (now they say 157 - don't know where that other week came from), so it's the same as everywhere else.

My own logical sense is that the "5 school years in 4 calendar years" is, logically - $$$$.

 

[jdub]

i was told that they set it up to look like a five year program, so that people could get an extra year of loans if they needed it . . .