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You have a good shot. 5 interviews at an average of 20% chance of acceptance at each school, grant you at least one acceptance. Best of luck!
You have a good shot. 5 interviews at an average of 20% chance of acceptance at each school, grant you at least one acceptance. Best of luck!
Thank You for all your insight guys. I really consider myself lucky for getting 4 DO interview invites even after taking the MCAT so many times. I really wasn't even expecting one. I applied just because I had the money saved and because I was kinda feeling down and desperate, and I didn't wanna go down without even trying. So here I am now with 4 DO interviews. I hope I can make it to at least one. Now is there anything (any advice) that you guys think I need to know about the interviews? or any specifics about the schools I got IIs from? Also, one more thing, I know going to the Caribbean is a big risk, but from what I've heard SGU is the best in the Caribbean in terms of sending students back to the U.S. Is there any reason why if I don't get accepted in the U.S. I shouldn't go there as a last resort?
I would add this to the beginning of posts regarding DO vs Caribbean from now on lol.I am not from the United States originally and if I were to ever return to my home nation (Zimbabwe) a DO would have limited recognition, so this was something that greatly influenced me.
That's the same mindset I had. I am interested in primary care, and I would like to practice in the U.S., but I would like to kinda go back and forth to Haiti and help my home nation as well because the people there are in pretty bad shape, and I don't think they care where I get my degree from as long I can help them out.I got into SGU and a DO school a couple of years ago (2015 cycle) and I almost went to SGU (sent my deposit and bought a plane ticket). Fortunately I got off the waitlist at a stateside MD program a couple weeks before classes started and matriculated there, but I would still have gone to SGU over DO if given the opportunity to do so again. They seem to do well with graduate placements and have been around for a long time (several academic physicians at my current medical school are graduates). Granted, I am not from the United States originally and if I were to ever return to my home nation (Zimbabwe) a DO would have limited recognition, so this was something that greatly influenced me.
That's the same mindset I had. I am interested in primary care, and I would like to practice in the U.S., but I would like to kinda go back and forth to Haiti and help my home nation as well because the people there are in pretty bad shape, and I don't think they care where I get my degree from as long I can help them out.
But I would like to add that I would definitely prefer DO over SGU though, simply because DO have better residency placements. So for now I am only concentrating on those 4 DO interviews. I will only interview for SGU after I hear from those DO schools.That's the same mindset I had. I am interested in primary care, and I would like to practice in the U.S., but I would like to kinda go back and forth to Haiti and help my home nation as well because the people there are in pretty bad shape, and I don't think they care where I get my degree from as long I can help them out.
Because I've read somewhere that they would immediately reject you if your MCAT is Low.No Caribbean
DO and MD>>>yes
Why didn't you apply at Touros?
Because I've read somewhere that they would immediately reject you in your MCAT is Low.