Foreign and French-Canadian Transcripts

All Caribbean medical schools are considered foreign institutions and are not US accredited, even if they have offices in the US or allow US licensing. Do not send transcripts from these schools to APPA CAS, as they will be discarded. Determine whether your programs require foreign evaluations (which may be sent to APPA CAS), or if they will accept original Caribbean transcripts mailed directly to the program. 

If you attended a foreign school or earned your degree outside of the United States, APPA CAS does not require any documentation, but the majority of programs you're applying to require you to submit your foreign coursework to a US-based evaluation service for a course-by-course US equivalency report. This report should then be sent directly to APPA CAS from the evaluation service. 

Contact a foreign transcript evaluation service as early as possible. Services can take several weeks to process your transcript(s) once received. 

Do not send foreign transcripts to APPA CAS, including those printed in English or translated into English; they will be discarded. 

The following are foreign evaluation vendors our applicants have used in the past. This list is not all-inclusive and we do not recommend or endorse any particular vendor or service. Check with your programs to see if they have a preferred or required vendor that may not be on this list.

• World Education Services (WES), Inc. 
  • If you choose WES, you can request electronic WES evaluations directly through the application. Click Order WES Evaluation after listing your foreign school in the Colleges Attended section. Make sure to select APPA CAS from the drop-down on WES's page. Once WES completes your evaluation, they will send it to APPA CAS electronically. APPA CAS also accepts paper WES evaluations sent via mail. 
    
    
• Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc.
• Josef Silny & Associates, Inc. 
• International Education Research Foundation, Inc. 
• Educational Perspectives

If you send foreign evaluations by mail, use the following address:

APPA CAS Transcript Processing Center
PO Box 9131
Watertown, MA 02471

International applicants can also send foreign evaluations to the following street address:

APPA CAS Transcript Processing Center
c/o Liaison International
311 Arsenal Street, Suite 15
Watertown, MA 02472

We are not responsible for any materials lost in the mail. Express or certified mail does not guarantee faster processing or receipt.