<p>I don’t know what your parents’ objectives are or the conditions in the Philippines so I cant give you an informed answer. In our case we didn’t put any firm conditions. W&I, and for that matter many other families from my birth-country, have taken our kids to check out the universities there usually to give them another option.
We know many who are there, or who have completed and are back, and the experience covers the whole spectrum - from “absolutely the best decision” to the exact opposite. D1 applied but decided not to pursue it, and D2 probably won’t apply.</p>
<p>For the areas we were interested in - medicine and vet, other than money, and the cultural experience, a big factor is time and curriculum. A regular med track that D1 is aiming for or D2’s pre-vet needs four years of school studying among other things, history, philosophy, languages, calculus, and physics. Overseas, on day one, you’re dissecting bodies and there’s an order of magnitude more real cases you deal with. And based on where the expats seem to get placed in residencies here, it looked like a viable option.</p>
<p>We never even considered schooling there for DS as his interests were comp sci and engg. There is no difference in time and the amount of exposure to industry here, such as in internships, made it a no-brainer.</p>