This is the key to the success of Caribbean medical schools in recruiting students. Everyone thinks they're going to be the exception, that they're a special snowflake. It's a human trait that is successfully exploited by those schools.
You said you don't work in anecdotes but YOU bringing up 1 person is an anecdote. I don't think you understand statistics very well. No one says you can't be successful in med school with a low MCAT, there are always individuals who are outliers, but what everyone is trying to get you to understand is that if you take a huge data set of thousands of students and look at their MCAT and STEP scores, a high MCAT is predictive of success based on looking at thousands of students profiles. This is important in predicting future success because you don't know how any one student will perform. So it is a red flag when a student has a low MCAT score, thus this is why it is used in admissions.
Everyone is using peer reviewed data to argue their point besides you, who is bringing up individual stories, no one is saying that a single individual can't do well on step w a low MCAT, but it is less likely based on years of data. It's like saying I know one person who went to this no name carribean school and became a neurosurgeon in the U.S. after, so you can do it too! That would be poor advice, and go against what the data suggests will happen.
So yes when someone can't break 50th percentile on the MCAT, after numerous retakes, it's probably not going to go well in med school.
This is the key to the success of Caribbean medical schools in recruiting students. Everyone thinks they're going to be the exception, that they're a special snowflake. It's a human trait that is successfully exploited by those schools.
Yeah, you can look at statistics and come up with whatever but you know what, Donald Trump is President too so explain that to me? I guess statistics predicted that too right? Or no, you'll come up with some excuse for that too. Now I would think becoming a doctor in the Caribbean is a little easier than trying to run for the President of the US. Don't you think?
Nice strawman. You're a living, breathing textbook of logical fallacies. And, highly entertaining.
-Skip
What residency? IM?