As does advertising overpriced materials that are equivalent to something that can be found in a bookstore...
I do not personally hate Dallas. He was actually quite a friendly person, though some of my friends have told me they did not like the experience.
I was damn bored in that clinic.
However, I definitely believe that his (and most other prep course) materials are
a. no different to any other prep course materials,
b. no different to things you can find in a bookstore, and
c. highly overpriced.
If you could get the equivalent materials, legally I might add, from a bookstore (or if you can't be bothered getting up, from amazon.com) or even from websites like Tickle, I doubt anyone would buy any prep course materials.
Unless of course, you don't know that it's the same.
IN ADDITION,
the vast majority of people in medicine do not do a prep course - meaning, they didn't do icarus, they didn't do medentry, they didn't do amepp, whatever... They made it without, because they can get the same stuff for much, much cheaper.
And I do recall Marinababy posting stuff that was "lies" from the icarus website to do with Medentry putting false advertising (from the Australian Dental Association, etc), and I do not doubt the veracity of that claim.
What I do doubt though is the false advertising on the front of the ICARUS website for all to see. Quoting the front page:
The successful choice of 8/10 students who actually Get In to Medicine and Dentistry! Join the winners right now and make your dream ours. Make your safe choice count.
8/10 students?? No way. Less than one third of all medical students did a prep course to get in. Why? Because it wasn't necessary, because the same materials are out there for less than 1/5 of the price.
How about this other piece of false advertising:
International students will be eligible to apply for registration as an overseas-trained doctor in their own country (Australia/NZ), UK, USA
This would have to be the third time at least I've quoted this and still Marinababy's best response is "the press overstepped the mark"... because she can't argue with the AMA's stance on VCM - that the MBBS degree offered there DOES NOT ALLOW YOU TO APPLY BACK TO AUSTRALIA TO PRACTICE.
perhaps we should combine the two statements and it might be true:
The successful choice of 8/10 students who actually Get In to Medicine
AT
Vanuatu College of Medicine!
Now that sounds about right.