This is first time I have heard someone claim that a student accepted into KMCIC is surprised to find they have not been accepted into KMC. How odd that some anonymous poster here on VMD is making the claim. I speak with 20 or 30 prospective students and parents every day and have been in regular contact with current students. No one has ever made that claim to me. And believe me I have heard some doozies.
AUA's and KMCIC's Admissions Committees are independent. KMCIC's Admissions Committee follows standards established by AUA. Occasionally they make slightly different decisions for individual students. 99% of the time they are exactly the same.
About 10% of all applications to KMCIC go to Manipal directly. The rest go to me. And yes I forward (scan/email) them directly to the KMCIC Admissions Committee. Some students who apply to other programs in Manipal (MBBS, Nursing, Pharm...etc.) and are not accepted then decide to apply to KMCIC accounting for maybe 2% or 3% more of accepted KMCIC students.
KMCIC's admin offices, faculty offices and dedicated classroms/labs are in the same building as some of KMC's classrooms. KMCIC students share libraries, common classroms and every other facility of Manipal University.
And of course the "clincher"
LOL.
KMC doesn't accept transfer credit from another Medical School. (including KMCIC) Notice that punctuation there: period. A student could be enrolled in Harvard Medical School and apply to transfer to KMC and not receive transfer credit. "Why?" You may be asking yourself? Because Indian Medical Schools do not accept transfer credit. Any student applying to KMC is applying to the first semester whether they are coming out of high school, college, a Master's program or if they have a PhD.
KMCIC is not an Indian Medical School.
Compared to KMC, KMCIC's admissions standards are easier, yes. But how are you comparing one of the most prestigious and desirable Medical Schools in the world with KMCIC which has been in existence for 2 1/2 years now? KMC, Manipal has an incoming class of 250 every year and probably 40-50,000 applicants for those 250 spots.
I hope someone out there is being edified by this. I feel like I'm working with a certain "least common denominator" situtation here. Answering the same questions over and over again. Must be the nature of VMD.