While I do agree that the attrition rate in general at manycaribbean schools is very high, it does not apply to each school individually. For example SGU has an attrition rate of 10%, AUC 13%, Ross and Saba 40-50%.
So since I know this is the case it concerns me more out of the people who complete the four years who gets residency, and AUC posts on their site its about 80% for their first year... I'm not sure about SGU I've been searching and can't find it. I don't trust their numbers very much since only the people that are guaranteed to pass the steps are allowed to actually go ahead and take it.. so its not taking into account the other students that completed the first 2 years and are not taking the steps or would have done poorly.
It is more difficult to attain more competitive residencies but its not impossible, in fact many students do place into many competitive residencies.
In any case, my main concern is just being accepted!! I'm pretty familiar with all the other info... I don't want to put this off any longer and would like to start this coming January. I'm taking the MCAT Sept 12.
I'm planning on improving my score by then, but in case i don't and I remain at a 24 my concern is what chances I would have then.
Thank you all so much for contributing