I know, this is not a great situation to be in since they have deadlines earlier in november that I missed aswell. Still I am interested in the caribbean route any details?
Stop trying to do this fast and start trying to do this right.
Caribbean schools are pretty much a last resort for people who can't get into a school in the US (MD or DO). While theoretically you could get done a year or two early, there are a ton of problems with this proposition.
First of all, a TON more students are weeded out in the Carib than in the US. In the US, only about 4% of students don't complete med school, and the majority of those aren't even because they couldn't handle the courseload, it's because they decided medicine wasn't for them. I believe at most Carib schools, more than half of the students don't even make it to Step 1 before being weeded out.
Secondly, if you do manage to graduate, the match rates are terrible at most Carib schools. Because most of the Carrib schools are relatively unknown, the preclinical grades and most letters of recommendation have almost no meaning because residency directors have no basis of comparison to help them understand the rigor of the courses you've taken. That basically reduces you to just your Step 1 score for them to grade you on. Furthermore, it's going to get harder to match in coming years from the Carib; new US medical schools are opening and existing ones are increasing class sizes, yet the number of residency slots are remaining the same. Even more Carib students will have to scramble than before, and more and more are going to be left completely out in the cold.
Finally, even if you get through all that, a lot of doors will be closed to you. The vast majority of Carrib students that do match wind up in some of the least desirable residencies--basically, the stuff nobody else wanted. I don't think you'd want to close a ton of doors just so you can get your MD a year or two faster.
