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.
• Educational Credential Evaluators, Inc.
• Josef Silny & Associates, Inc.
• International Education Research Foundation, Inc.
• Educational Perspectives

1. Click Order after listing your foreign school in the Colleges Attended section.
2. Select if you are ordering an electronic WES evaluation or submitting a WES or other vendor's foreign evaluation via mail.
3. If ordering an electronic WES evaluation, select WES and follow the prompts. 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.
   
   
4. If submitting a WES or other vendor's foreign evaluation via mail, click Download Transcript ID Form and print the form. 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
   STE 5600
   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.
5. Click I Ordered My Evaluation once you requested an electronic evaluation or downloaded the Transcript ID form. Or, click I Will Do This Later to return to Colleges Attended.