I have these four acceptances in hand (SGU, PCOM, San Juan Baut, and Sackler in Israel). I was rejected overtly or silently from all of the mainland MD schools to which I applied, but I do hold one US MD acceptance. It is from the San Juan school in Puerto Rico that is LCME accredited on probation, but did lose its accreditation temporarily in October 2011. It regained it a month later and was re-visited by the LCME and restored to accreditation with probation, which is the status it has had since April-May 2012. I have heard that it will be restored to full accreditation this May or June and have the probation lifted because the LCME site visit went well, but the results will not be published until early June, which is after the deadline to hold more than one acceptance I believe. San Juan also starts earlier than other schools, like in June I think. The school's history still concerns me. I am bilingual so the curriculum will not be a problem but what do you think? I am thinking that I should attend either Sackler or St. George's, and am leaning slightly more toward Sackler just due to the large tuition difference, but that Sackler students do not get to do their third-year clinicals in the states is concerning to me. I want to do my rotations in the US. I also prefer to have an M.D. degree over a D.O. degree How will residency directors view graduates of a US MD school that lost accreditation, then was put on probation. Let's assume that the school comes off probation. Will the school's past history be held against the future students in matches? I am going to assume that most if not all of the 2011 problems that caused the accreditation loss have been remedied, because otherwise they would not have maintained the LCME accreditation for 2 and a half years after losing it, but maybe I am naive in this regard. In terms of cost of attendance (tuition + living expenses +misc), San Juan is the cheapest, then Sackler, then the Philly DO school, then SGU is the most expensive.
What would you do?
What would you do?