Why would I waste my time posting if I wanted to troll? I have already reached directly to the schools and spoke with some students. The reason I am posting here is to get more opinions. If you were a medical school, you will only direct prospective students to talk with those who are/ were the top of their class and have nothing but good things to say. That's marketing and only gives me a one sided response. I want to hear from students in the middle of the pack. How am I supposed to know that the students hating on SDN are not just bad at studying and want to blame the school for their own problems?
Fair enough, but lots of people waste their time trolling because, for whatever reason, they enjoy it, so saying a post by definition cannot be a troll because someone spent time making the post doesn't make sense! That said, and assuming you are serious, you've obviously been reading long enough to know the responses you are going to get, assuming you get any responses at all.
The SDN community does not support the Caribbean school business model, and with good reason. You already know this. Lots of people at these schools are bad at studying, and the fact that the schools know this and still exploit their desire to become MDs for profit is the knock on them. It's a sleazy business model that financially destroys a ton a people, and you know this too.
Finally, you know that there are some success stories, so it's not impossible to do what you are thinking about, even though the odds going in are against it, so what more are you looking for, if not to stir it up here? Bottom line, no matter whether or not any "middle of the pack" students reply to you, is that lots of people go to the Caribbean, lots of people don't make it to graduation, lots of people who do graduate don't match, and some people actually end up as practicing MDs who wouldn't otherwise have the opportunity to do so. You know this, and don't need anyone's permission to buy this lottery ticket if that's what you want to do.
I'm not a current or past student, but I also have no interest in talking you out of doing something you want to do! I'm just questioning why you are coming to a place where you know the opinion is overwhelmingly negative setting preconditions on responses. Good luck!!!
