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Your positive attitude is certainly very admirable and I wish you good luck as you complete the program and move on towards your goal of matching. But I think you're confused that this is somehow about my story vs. your story. A lot of these threads are about people asking if they should apply to the Caribbean and I think you're advice of "powering through" is not the best and a bit lame to be honest. The programs are designed to trip you up (as I pointed out in detail with my first post) so instead of giving a prospective student, mind you someone who has no experience with the Caribbean and how these schools operate, this false idea that they stand some type of statistical chance, it's better to point out more of the negativity and have them decide if any positives outweigh those negatives. Even I am still considering giving this one more shot myself at a better school but I have a lot more information to decide (for myself) if that is something that is realistic or not. But you would really be doing a disservice to an uninformed student by telling them to just work hard.
At least at Ross / SGU you are mistaken. The programs are definitely not designed to trip you up. They want you to succeed. At SGU I am amazed at the chances that people get after failing classes.
You work hard and you will make it through just fine. It isn't some statistical game. Now if you fail and repeat courses, do poorly on steps, get C's in your clinical rotations, fail CS, etc ... and then expect to match 100%... you have a problem. Or if you make it through and are average with 225 step and want to do surgery .... you have a problem.