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[crumbelievable]

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by offering your sincere advice:

ive gotten into auc in the caribbean and the mbs program at tufts. im waiting to hear back from sgu in the caribbean and the msp program at drexel. if i dont get into either of those, im not sure whethere auc or mbs at tufts is better for me. also, im wondering whether i should withdraw my application to sgu if i get into the msp program at drexel? since all this is based on my stats, at the risk of redundancy and/or ridicule, here they are:

2.7, 27p, 1000+ hours volunteer, clinical experience, genuine reasons for poor grades which ive done my best to explain in applications, looking to go in to psychiatry

to all who offer their genuine advice (ive learned to ignore the people who are lucky enough never to have had a hard time when life intervenes during college and can claim that nothing but stupidity can account for grades like that): thanks in advance!

 

[Falco2525]

hmm this is a tough one...with that gpa your best shot is the carribean....even if you do really well in graduate school it will likely be very difficult with that gpa to gain admission to a US allo school...if you were to break a 33 on the MCAT and did the masters program with a 4.0 gpa you may have an outside shot...best of luck with this decision...i am sure there are others on here who can best answer you

 

[SupergreenMnM]

I would go with the post bach program and prove to the schools that even though you might have had problems in the past you can make the cut NOW, which is what matters. Also, there are problems (money is one) associated with going to the carib that you should consider. Weight those against the extra time you would spend in a post bach program, if time is important, money isn't, and you aren't interested in ultra competitive residencies then going south may be the way to go for you...and maybe retake those MCATs?

 

[deleted128318]

by offering your sincere advice:

ive gotten into auc in the caribbean and the mbs program at tufts. im waiting to hear back from sgu in the caribbean and the msp program at drexel. if i dont get into either of those, im not sure whethere auc or mbs at tufts is better for me. also, im wondering whether i should withdraw my application to sgu if i get into the msp program at drexel? since all this is based on my stats, at the risk of redundancy and/or ridicule, here they are:

2.7, 27p, 1000+ hours volunteer, clinical experience, genuine reasons for poor grades which ive done my best to explain in applications, looking to go in to psychiatry

to all who offer their genuine advice (ive learned to ignore the people who are lucky enough never to have had a hard time when life intervenes during college and can claim that nothing but stupidity can account for grades like that): thanks in advance!

What is it about psychiatry that you love? Is it something that cannot be done as a PsyD (or PhD in Clinical Psych)?

 

[BleepTastic]

PHD in clinical psych is far more competitive than medical school so I doubt anyone has a better shot at it. Psy.D could work if op rocks the GRE. If she or he does really well in the post bacc and retakes the mcat than the best shot really is at med school.

 

[HumbleMD]

by offering your sincere advice:

ive gotten into auc in the caribbean and the mbs program at tufts. im waiting to hear back from sgu in the caribbean and the msp program at drexel. if i dont get into either of those, im not sure whethere auc or mbs at tufts is better for me. also, im wondering whether i should withdraw my application to sgu if i get into the msp program at drexel? since all this is based on my stats, at the risk of redundancy and/or ridicule, here they are:

2.7, 27p, 1000+ hours volunteer, clinical experience, genuine reasons for poor grades which ive done my best to explain in applications, looking to go in to psychiatry

to all who offer their genuine advice (ive learned to ignore the people who are lucky enough never to have had a hard time when life intervenes during college and can claim that nothing but stupidity can account for grades like that): thanks in advance!

😕 I don't know what any of those acronyms stand for.

 

[patrickd223]

consider this: even the people who go to the caribbean tell people not to do it if there is any hope for any american school (40-50% dropout rate). I would do post bac and retake the MCAT and apply for DO. On another note, psychiatry isnt a super competitive field so going out of the country shouldnt hinder your final goal. good luck.

 

[crumbelievable]

thanks, everyone . . . i think i want to go into psychiatry now but im not sure. i do know i want to be an md and ive looked into that option so psychology isnt for me.

 

[lord_jeebus]

If it is true that your numbers are due to circumstances, do the postbacc.

 

[Depakote]

consider this: even the people who go to the caribbean tell people not to do it if there is any hope for any american school (40-50% dropout rate). I would do post bac and retake the MCAT and apply for DO. On another note, psychiatry isnt a super competitive field so going out of the country shouldnt hinder your final goal. good luck.

I would agree that you should do the post-bac program and apply DO.

Note: the DO application service AACOMAS will not average retakes, they will use the most recent grade when calculating your GPA, so this could make a dramatic difference should you decide to go that route (which I would advise over Carib).

 

[BleepTastic]

consider this: even the people who go to the caribbean tell people not to do it if there is any hope for any american school (40-50% dropout rate). I would do post bac and retake the MCAT and apply for DO. On another note, psychiatry isnt a super competitive field so going out of the country shouldnt hinder your final goal. good luck.

Is there a way to find out the "why" of the high drop out rate? Is it due to bad education, homesickness, or because the caribbean screening process just doesn't weed out the students who aren't able to handle the coursework?

 

[Depakote]

Is there a way to find out the "why" of the high drop out rate? Is it due to bad education, homesickness, or because the caribbean screening process just doesn't weed out the students who aren't able to handle the coursework?

I would guess the majority are the latter.

In some cases it may be homesickness (more likely the inability to cope with the severe isolation).

I'd also guess that the student support out there isn't as strong as it is at some mainland schools. (Only basing this on the attrition rate)