Just a few points to your very long post, as I am a current student at St. Chris:

The girls in York House ARE very young, but to set the record straight they have nothing to do with scheduling your clinical rotations, etc. They only do administrative paperwork for the basic sciences. Clinical management is done by US staff,
Secondly, dealing with KG for housing and your "tiny room" - ALL the housing in England is outdated, tiny and old. The work ethic is MUCH different than the US, and most employees that I have come in contact, whether at St. Chris or in any working environment in the UK, quite frankly, seem to do as little as possible, take on as little responsibility as possible, and with as little enthusiasm as possible. That seems to be more a mark of the work environment in the UK rather than St. Chris itself. Choosing a school solely for the country you would be living in was certainly not a prudent thing to do. That in itself speaks volumes for your decision making. I don't mean it as a personal attack, but if you had fairly good grades and a high MCAT, why go offshore at all? I also took the MCAT, and while my grade was respectable, it was not competitive, and I knew it. I am also much older and the whole grad school/reapplication route is also not an option for me..but you?
As for profs going in and out, sorry, but that doesn't wash. My class alone has half a dozen transfers from Carib schools, and they have told us that the same things go on at those other schools as well, and their complaints about THEIR former schools is why they transferred.
Of course, I have a stake in this, I am a student at St. Chris, so I do my own checking, calling, etc, because I realize that recruiters are salesmen primarily. At this point, from the information received firsthand, I have no problem in believing that the ECFMG documentation will be provided and resolve that issue. I am not as certain for the GMC, because, though the paperwork is the same, the government is not, and if you see my above statements on the work ethic of those in the UK and multiply that 100 times for bureacracy, then you understand my point.
So, in short, I don't consider myself "pro-SC" or a "SC cheerleader", rather I am working for myself and my future. I HAVE seen letters from Senegalese officials, they have always been posted in the Atrium of the building.
Can someone answer for me, please though, if you are NOT a student at St. Chris or similar school, what meaning all of this has for you? What I mean is, even if I weren't in medical school, I would have so many other responsbilities, such as working, taking care of my family, etc..that I would not have TIME to become such a presence on these forums, and certainly not have a REASON, I have too much of a life...so, I don't get it. People don't do things "just because", so I'm curious?

Okay, so I learned that you need to double-check that a 14 MB download to update a driver isn't really a zipped file. But, my laptop is now uncluttered with all the garbage I added to it in the past year (which is nicely compacted in a backup file and I still haven't managed to figure out how to reactivate my 'favorites').

I feel like I'm repeating myself...I have never complained about legitimate criticism of any school. I have levied some of my own. But I do take exception to the baseless accusations and the deliberate efforts of some who distort truths. I don't challenge personal opinions of posters like this Chris123. I read something like that and I get the impression that he isn't happy because he wasn't treated as being special. I had some people in my school who ranted that the school was bad because their maid service wasn't up to the standards they expected. One can't minimize these complaints as they may be exceptionally important to the people making them...but the complaints specific to the actual school itself...well, these forums are filled with similar complaints at every school.

When the charter issue occured at St. Christopher's something seemed amiss to me right from the beginning. Initially, I was as concerned as most people, but I began making inquiries and learned there was substance to the nuances I detected. I have been asked not to discuss it, so it'll have to be left as the 600 lb gorilla hiding behind the sapling.

I'll have to mirror Bhoot's comments above about the unpredictability of bureaucratic response times. But all that is known has not been made public. That which has should reassure those affected that the resolution is coming. That some students are panicking or have decided that the remaining risks are too great are making decisions that are as individual as the reasons all of us considered in selecting a school. As are those students who aren't panicking and aren't running off to other schools.

I'll assume that Bhoot directed his last question to people like me, so I'll answer it. You're right, I have no connection to St. Christopher's. Never have nor will I. I just don't like people who have hidden agendas or who manufacture lies and distortions to profit to the detriment of others.

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Actually, my questions wasn't directed at you, though I will make it a point to say that I appreciate reading your calm, balanced posts among all the mis-spelled, emotional posts that I tend to read here.

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