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I think Caribbean medical school students are affected by a certain inferiority complex. We would all like to believe that the Caribbean stigma does not apply to those students who attend SGU, Ross, AUC, or SABA. With SMU making its presence felt in the last few years, the so called top 4 is now known as the top 5. Therefore, SMU students would also like to be part of the elite US and Canadian rejects granted another shot at fulfilling a dream.
To say that student X went to SMU because he or she couldnt get into SABA, or student Y went to SABA because he or she was rejected from SGU is simply a matter of opinion, and can only be factually established on person to person basis. Whatever the ranking system maybe, or ones opinion in relation to any of these schools, the Caribbean stigma is equally shared, always was, and always will be.
Furthermore, the anomaly of a student with a 3.5 GPA and 30+ MCAT attending SABA or any other Caribbean medical school, is exactly that, only an anomaly. But I dare not say this disparagingly, because I believe that the Caribbean school market, or at least those schools with a foundation of legitimacy fulfill a very important niche. The ability to refine a student who may have once been considered average on paper or to simply discover the diamond in the rough is not only a demonstration of the American dream in practice, but is also a testament to the quality of students and education that are found at some of the universities in the Caribbean in the first place.
To say that student X went to SMU because he or she couldnt get into SABA, or student Y went to SABA because he or she was rejected from SGU is simply a matter of opinion, and can only be factually established on person to person basis. Whatever the ranking system maybe, or ones opinion in relation to any of these schools, the Caribbean stigma is equally shared, always was, and always will be.
Furthermore, the anomaly of a student with a 3.5 GPA and 30+ MCAT attending SABA or any other Caribbean medical school, is exactly that, only an anomaly. But I dare not say this disparagingly, because I believe that the Caribbean school market, or at least those schools with a foundation of legitimacy fulfill a very important niche. The ability to refine a student who may have once been considered average on paper or to simply discover the diamond in the rough is not only a demonstration of the American dream in practice, but is also a testament to the quality of students and education that are found at some of the universities in the Caribbean in the first place.