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In my situation it was cheaper. I understand that DO schools aren't cheap. However I'm saving about 100 grand.
Let's try a sports analogy again (though you didn't do so well with those before).
I'm a starting football player at a mid-level high school. I'm 5'10 and play wide receiver. I'm pretty good but not great, but I want to keep playing football after high school.
Do I (a) go to Alabama and try to walk on? or (b) go to a D-III school.
In other words...you don't actually have to get rejected to self-select out. Lots of people do it in medicine and other careers.
Right I'm not questioning your reasons for going DO. Just pointing out that if there are people who have committed to DO schools straight out of high school, that's your starting pool for a pre-DO club right there.
As @NickNaylor put it above...the fact that others have done it doesn't necessarily mean it's sound decision making.
By your logic then everyone who goes pre PA or NP or RN doesn't actually want to do those careers. They either failed to go MD or self selected out. News flash not everyone wants to be MD. You go to the carribean as a backup DO is an alternative. The stats are very close too so it would make no sense to self select DO. If you think you can't make it into an MD school you probably won't get into DO either. The average is only 4 MCAT points and .2 GPA difference. Not to mention if we consider the DO schools with higher stats and MD ones with lower stats then the difference is tiny. To self select based on ability makes no sense for so many reasons but the small difference in the grades really is the nail in that coffin.
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