Originally Posted by Magen-MD

"The valueMD community is generally pretty good at exposing problem schools. You know the school is new and striving to recruit students. There are questions about its charter. What more do you need to know?"

While it is true that issues of the university's accreditation/charter, striving to recruit students (lack of growth) in some cases performance of the students in USMLE Step 1...(Results) because these issues go to the core of your continuation towards the attainment of your dream to become a MD or not. It is not foolish to therefore take necessary risks as opposed to unnecessary risks. And this can be achieved by getting the basic issues as pointed out above, addressed. Not by being scared to decided, but by researching and learning from objective opinion here on valueMD community. Objective opinion will state facts as they are not hearsay. There are many new universities, and being new is not a problem. The problem is what a new school is not capable of doing or has not done yet--that is what you should be looking at.

Another issue is: When you take advice from anyone, insider or outsider, make sure that the outsider does not attribute the problems that his school encountered during its establishment to another school that is just opening up its doors to new students. Just because it's new.

I could go on and on but hey ..... generally speaking, this community has lots and lots of good information. I truly believe it is a great community on the net today. By the end of the day you got to decide!!!