•••quote:•••It's just that you keep asking the same question...••••Thank you, Pill Counter.
Kid- I think your response to my post speaks volumes and fully supports everything I was saying about your situation. You are only coming across on these forums as very neurotic and immature. Like I said, why don't you take a year off, re-apply to U.S. schools, and see what happens. Or, better yet, make a visit to both campuses? Why can't you do that? If this is such a big decision for you, that money would be WELL invested.
As far as your lame personal attacks, well... suffice it to say that I am a lot older, more mature, and decisive in my plans. I worked for years in the pharmaceutical industry and knew what I wanted. I was not, at your age, ready to make the committment to pursuing a medical degree offshore because I too was uncertain.
While I loved the medical field and the study of medicine, I realized that I was only going to go so far without a medical doctor degree. So, after working and being "underemployed" for a long time, I decided after much deliberation to pursue my medical degree at Ross. It was not an easy decision, and I carefully weighed all the pros and cons, much as you are doing now. What I did not do is become so lost that I started asking random people on forums where they went to school. The fact that you would even remotely allow that to factor into your decision tells me that you need to chill out, recollect yourself, and decide if going the Caribbean route is for you at all.
However... Having said all of that, if I were in your shoes, I would go to SGU. I have a friend there now who loves it. The thing is, she will spend another year in the islands. I will be home in the U.S. permanently in December. You are WAY too hung-up on this Chicago thing. I know you really want to be there, but there are no guarantees that you will get a residency there when you graduate anyway. Get out, see the world, gain some experience! Heck, you're planning on living in a foreign country for at least the next two years. You need to stop panicking so much and just relax. As much as you'd like to, you're just not going to plan the rest of your life out in the next 3 months. While we'd all agree that this is a huge decision, you're trying to take the easy way out. You want someone to say, "Go to this school because I did" or whatever else. Other people can't, should not, and probably will not do that for you. So...
Why don't you jump on a plane and fly down to Dominica and then Grenada to check the programs out firsthand yourself?
Or, were you so busy being pissed-off by my message that you missed that the first few times I said it?
