*sigh*
Your stats are fine for a number of MD schools, and all DO. But the odds of you ever being an MD are 50-50 at best by going IMG, and they will get smaller as more MD and DO schools open (probably another 10 by 2020).
How important are those letters after your name?
The point here isn't that there are successful Carib grads. The point is how many additional obstacles to success you face by going to a Carib school.
The pool of US applicants from the Caribbean is viewed differently by Program Directors. The DDx for a Caribbean grad is pretty off-putting: bad judgment, bad advice, egotism, gullibility, overbearing parents, inability to delay gratification, IA's, legal problems, weak research skills, high risk behavior. This is not to say that all of them still have the quality that drew them into this situation. There is just no way to know which ones they are. Some PD's are in a position where they need to, or can afford to take risks too! So, some do get interviews.
Bad grades and scores are the least of the deficits from a PD's standpoint. A strong academic showing in a Caribbean medical school does not erase this stigma. It fact it
increases the perception that the reason for the choice was on the above-mentioned list!
Just about everyone from a Caribbean school has one or more of these problems and PDs know it. That's why their grads are the last choice even with a high Step 1 score.
There was a time when folks whose only flaw was being a late bloomer went Carib, but those days are gone. There are a number of spots at US schools with grade replacement for these candidates.
It's likely you'll be in the bottom half or two thirds of the class that gets dismissed before Step 1. The business plan of a Carib school depends on the majority of the class not needing to be supported in clinical rotations. They literally can't place all 250+ of the starting class at clinical sites (educational malpractice, really. If this happened at a US school, they be shut down by LCME or COCA, and sued.
The Carib (and other offshore) schools have very tenuous, very expensive, very controversial relationships with a very small number of US clinical sites. You may think you can just ask to do your clinical rotations at a site near home. Nope. You may think you don't have to worry about this stuff. Wrong.
And let's say you get through med school in the Carib and get what you need out of the various clinical rotation scenarios. Then you are in the match gamble. I don't need to say a word about this - you can find everything you need to know at nrmp.org.
You really need to talk to people who made it through Carib into residency, and hear the story from them. How many people were in their class at the start, how many are in it now? How long did it take to get a residency, and how did they handle the gap year(s) and their student loans? How many residencies did they apply to, how many interviews did they get, and were any of the programs on their match list anything like what they wanted?
A little light reading:
https://milliondollarmistake.wordpress.com/
http://www.tameersiddiqui.com/medical-school-at-sgu
Responses like these really bother me. I have met plenty of doctors (including two of my family members) who attended SGU. I will be following in their footsteps and attending. Being an FMG/IMG definitely is not ideal, especially when considering residency placements. However, those that insinuate that IMGs are less qualified than those who attended USMD or USDO schools are mistaken. Those who attend SGU have to prove themselves with high USMLE scores like everyone else. Unfortunately, I was not accepted to the USMD schools I applied for this year. I understand that I will have to work hard to prove myself due the unfortunate stigma surrounding IMGs. However, I watched my peers with lower GPAs and MCAT scores get accepted into schools that I did not. In undergrad, I was involved in undergraduate research, worked as a teaching assistant and medical scribe, maintained a 3.9 science gpa, and graduated magna cum laude. I submitted 5 LORs from professors where I was the top student (4 upper level science courses and 1 nonscience). After I graduated, I took the MCAT and got a 29. While this was lower than I hoped, I applied to schools where I was well above the average and was rejected. My friend with <3.5 gpa and 24 MCAT was accepted. Not everything is as black and white as it seems. And I hope throughout the years this ignorance will continue to decrease as time goes on.