<p>Yes, agreed, stick with a good plan.</p>
<p>You could apply to osteopathic medical school, podiatry school, chiropractic school, optometry school as backups. The requirements for DPT programs are very similar and that is also an option. You can apply to PhD programs in bio or chem if that is your major. Some do postgrad studies for a year and reapply. </p>
<p>I went with the NO BACKUP PLAN. I got lucky, and could choose from several acceptances. But my family kept asking (no bugging me about) what I would do if I did not get in. I never had to figure it out. But if you are the type of personality who needs a backup, there are good backup options.</p>
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While I understand where you’re coming from, Caribbean MD’s are a really, really bad option. The odds of successfully coming back to the States for residency are unknown – for obvious reasons, the numbers aren’t publicly available – but they’re probably worse than 1 in 4, since about half of them fail their boards and about half of them don’t match.</p>
<p>So, from what I can tell, 75% of students who go there end up four years later, out their $200,000 in tuition, and with no chance to be a physician.</p>
<p>Just get a 30 mcat and apply to all of your in school public med schools and the 5 lowest ranked medical schools. Chances are you will in into one.</p>
<p>Sunnyflorida wrote:
“You could apply to chiropractic school, optometry school as backups.”</p>
<p>Do not go to chiropractic school. It is a career that requires a lot of money (average debt upon graduation is over $120,000) to get an education and the starting as well as the average salaries are extremely low, usually between 0 and $36,000 per year to start. Most chiropractors quit the field within 5 years. Chiropractic has a higher student loan default rate than all the other health professions COMBINED!!</p>
<p>Google chirotalk proboards and read the horror stories about people ruining their lives going into chiropractic</p>