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Originally Posted by The Messenger
As a second enticement, myself and all of the students entering medical school with me were promised that if we went to the new campus on Nevis in the West Indies, our tuition would remain the same throughout our time in medical school. ..... One semester later, the tuition went up over $1000 per term. The administration denied ever making the promise to EVERYONE.
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FACTS: Tuition was $3,950 for Sept. 2001; $4,450 for Sept. 2002 and $4,950 for Jan. 2003. We applied so early for enrollment in Sept. 2002 that school asked us if we want to start in Sept. 2001 so I know back then it was $3950. But when we actually started in Sept. 2002, it went up to $ $4450, then $4950 after one term we were in school and up to now.
So went up $1,000 after one term is totally incorrect. We never were promised same tuition over our course of study.
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Originally Posted by The Messenger
What was not told to us before we left for the island, was that we could only live in the dorms for the first semester only and from them on we had to fend for ourselves. The islanders charged phenomenal prices for dumps and most were so far from campus the most students had to rent junker island cars for $600 to $800 per month just to get to school.
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FACTS: Car rental here is about ~U$300 / month. For U$300 - U$400, you could get sth like a 4 doors Suzuki Sidekick (the long one, not the 2 door short one). Just today, I saw an advertisement on RAMs (the largest supermarket). For U$1000, you can rent a house which has 2 large bedrooms, each with private bath, an indoor swim lap pool (i.e. narrow, not too long one), and living room, patio with iron furniture, etc. and oversee St. Kitts in Jones Estate, which is about 15 min. drive to school. The one bedroom apt unit within 7 min. WALK to school, cost U$450 /mo for people that prepay the 4 month in advance. And they can live there forever they want. I wouldn't call this "phenomenal price"
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Originally Posted by The Messenger
When I was over on Nevis I saw handout lists of clinicals available to us. Even while here in Belize I have excitedly kept up with the growing number of hospitals available for clinicals. Washington State was “always?on the lists. I was not tremendously excited about Spokane as an option but, if that was one so be it. Now, to my surprise, I find that you say there are no affiliations.
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FACTS: I confirmed with my husband who has seen the list of clinical rotation spot; and never he saw sites in Washington state. Why we can be so sure, because we are from B.C. Canada (now, everybody know who I am
) we would be jumping and so happy that if we could do rotation in Washington state which is so close to home. But we always know our rotation sites are mostly in the east side of the US.
This particular person first started in Nevis as he claims then ended up finishing in Belize. I wonder why? Because for a fact that, Nevis campus has better facilities, at least bigger campus, owned not rented. So why the trf?
The first 2 facts are verifiable, the 3rd one, hope you'll trust me
I am stating all facts, and no opinions.