>>11434
The most cutthroat of med-schools in Manila are as follows in no particular order:
1. UST- at the beginning, if you don't have connections in UST's faculty, you don't have a chance here.
2. UP- You are implied to do things on your own, push you to many studies on your own and keep you there. Their emphasis is less didactics, more on analysis. The cut off can be brutal unless you have the necessary equipment (friends and colleagues) that can help you in your problems. Because you will have problems, you will hit a wall, how you overcome that is entirely up to you, if you can't, then get the hell out.
3. Our Lady of Fatima University- Don't ever go here. They take in students with the promise of a low tuition and they charge you extras for overpriced manuals. The cut-off is more brutal than UP only because the sheer number of entrants here range to 2000 and they only take a maximum of say, 20% to 30% of the entire student population to be promoted to the higher years and they cut it down MORE until it reaches just about 100. The problem here is that your sole saving grace isn't really your intelligence but your connections just as the same as UST. You can be smart as hell, but if you're not part of the upper 10% then you're fair game and your slot can be taken over by some idiot spoiled shmuck that can't even into Physical Assessment. They also have a bad reputation of cheating and your study habits will never develop here once you obtain a copy of old exams. They don't even try to change the questionnaires which is fucking horrible when you want to pass the board exam and be a competent doctor.
4. ADMU School of Medicine and Public Health- You'll be stuck here for around 6-7 years from what I recall, you'll graduate with not only an MD degree, you'll also graduate with a PhD in Hospital Management and a Master's Degree in Public Health. Tuition is what you've come to expect from a university of high class people. But hey, once you're done, the most guaranteed job that you will have at the minimum is an epidemiology professor at another med school or a dean in a certaiPost too long. Click here to view the full text.