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Hi everyone, so I applied to med school this year and got utterly rejected from everywhere in the US. however, I will be starting medical school in the Carribean starting August.

Do you think I can reapply for U.S. medical schools this cycle even though I'm attending the carribean? can I apply to med school as a med student? and if I actually get accepted, can I ditch the carribean after my first year and matriculate into the U.S. ?? any thots????

bad move. what are your stats. you gave us so little to work with. and how would you come back to the states to interview? carribean is a mistake, but it is your life. but what are your stats?

Originally Posted by tralalal

Hi everyone, so I applied to med school this year and got utterly rejected from everywhere in the US. however, I will be starting medical school in the Carribean starting August.

Do you think I can reapply for U.S. medical schools this cycle even though I'm attending the carribean? can I apply to med school as a med student? and if I actually get accepted, can I ditch the carribean after my first year and matriculate into the U.S. ?? any thots????

No US school will accept you from the Caribbean.

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Originally Posted by FrkyBgStok

bad move. what are your stats. you gave us so little to work with. and how would you come back to the states to interview? carribean is a mistake, but it is your life. but what are your stats?

The whole point is to apply to U.S. medical school without telling them that I am already in med school at the carribean. That way, if i get utterly rejected w/o inerview again, I will just continute with the carribean. My stats are horrid. 3.4 GPA, took MCAT 3 times. 26, 26, 28 respectively. have a paper published and worked as a patient care technician in a hospital for 1.5 years. I am 24 years old now and have little hope and faith in any possible success. I just don't have the luxury of a high IQ like most med applicants. please help carribean seems and looks very miserable

Reject your carribean acceptance and apply to DO schools.

Originally Posted by ThirdEye

Reject your carribean acceptance and apply to DO schools.

+1 Stats are good for most DO schools.

Originally Posted by tralalal

Hi everyone, so I applied to med school this year and got utterly rejected from everywhere in the US. however, I will be starting medical school in the Carribean starting August.

Do you think I can reapply for U.S. medical schools this cycle even though I'm attending the carribean? can I apply to med school as a med student? and if I actually get accepted, can I ditch the carribean after my first year and matriculate into the U.S. ?? any thots????

I don't know of anyone who's had success going Carribean and then transferring to US, but maybe it's happened?

What are your stats? If you're going to apply US again next year, I'd just stay and work on your score and application instead of going Carribean now.

I would have applied to DO schools as well.

You will be flagged. There are lists that Caribbean schools make and submit them to the states so that when you apply for residency and rotations you have documentation. Basically a minifile.

You should have applied to DO schools. Your stats are fine for DO.

Apply DO. Schools will be able to see especially if you got loans. DO is exponentially better than carribean.

I have met one student who was in the Caribbean and went DO after 1st year. He was accepted to his state DO school. So I guess it is possible, but he did have to redo 1st year.

Originally Posted by FrkyBgStok

Apply DO. Schools will be able to see especially if you got loans. DO is exponentially better than carribean.

thanks for the help everyone. may I ask why DO is exponentially better than carribean? I was always under the assumption that having an MD was better than having a DO. I mean, would you choose to have a DO over an MD any day?

Please do some reading about US MD vs. US DO vs. Caribbean MD degrees in the Pre-Allo forum - this is a commonly-discussed topic.

Originally Posted by FrkyBgStok

Apply DO. Schools will be able to see especially if you got loans. DO is exponentially better than carribean.

what do you mean by this?

Originally Posted by zoner

what do you mean by this?

I mean DO is exponentially better than carribean.

Originally Posted by tralalal

thanks for the help everyone. may I ask why DO is exponentially better than carribean? I was always under the assumption that having an MD was better than having a DO. I mean, would you choose to have a DO over an MD any day?

This is what frustrates me. Who would choose to have a DO over MD? Me and many, many other people.

Originally Posted by IUagd12

This is what frustrates me. Who would choose to have a DO over MD? Me and many, many other people.

Okay, why do you want to be a physician? Maybe you should ask yourself that first. Is it to have "MD" behind your name? If so, that is soooo superficial.

A DO is still a practicing physician like the MD, it is just that the DO is more so focused on having the "body use natural resources to heal ailments".. natural adjustments and manipulations vs a MD using "chemicals and medicines to heal ailments" that's it in a nutshell .. in VERY lament terms.

You should maybe look into the other threads on here. You will find at LEAST 20 threads on this.

Originally Posted by FrkyBgStok

I mean DO is exponentially better than carribean.

but what does that gotta do with loans?

btw, i LOOOOOVE DO

Originally Posted by tralalal

thanks for the help everyone. may I ask why DO is exponentially better than carribean? I was always under the assumption that having an MD was better than having a DO. I mean, would you choose to have a DO over an MD any day?

Every time I have to choose a new PCP I try to get a DO. I currently have one as my PCP.

Originally Posted by tralalal

The whole point is to apply to U.S. medical school without telling them that I am already in med school at the carribean. That way, if i get utterly rejected w/o inerview again, I will just continute with the carribean. My stats are horrid. 3.4 GPA, took MCAT 3 times. 26, 26, 28 respectively. have a paper published and worked as a patient care technician in a hospital for 1.5 years. I am 24 years old now and have little hope and faith in any possible success. I just don't have the luxury of a high IQ like most med applicants. please help carribean seems and looks very miserable

Why are you trying to bring yourself down? Adcoms will sniff out that lack of confidence right of way.

Either apply to DO, you will get interviews. OR take some courses to show you are capable of handle tough curriculums, retake your mcat, keep doing ECs and apply.

There are multiple routes in terms of grasping what is right for you.

A lot of people have mentioned applying for D.O. schools, and I have to agree with them since your stats are looking pretty baller.

However you mentioned that you are starting school in the Carribean this August, if you were wait listed in any US Medical School, you have the highest chance of getting accepted to that school while at the Carribean Med School - this means you have to, have to, have to be doing excellent at the school and have had to aced the living crap out of your Step I.

There is always some door that is waiting to be opened, you just have to be willing to get there and actually open it, how you are going to get to that door - well for that you have your GPS, right? right!

Anyways, I also found this blog from older posts here on SDN, check it out maybe it will be useful.

http://caribbeantransfer.blogspot.com/

Also other SDN posts on the same topic

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/showthread.php?t=370640

Don't be discouraged, just keep moving forward!

Originally Posted by IUagd12

This is what frustrates me. Who would choose to have a DO over MD? Me and many, many other people.

WOW o WOW. I would choose to be a DO all day every day.