<p>If you are worried about losing focus you probably won’t make it through med school if you somehow manage to get in. If you do go to the Caribbean plan on doing a residency someplace like Youngstown Ohio…if you are really lucky.</p>
<p>^^ Not necessarily, my cousin and his friends who went to St. Georges, ended up getting residencies in New York Presbetarian…which is a decent hospital…I mean if my end goal is to BE a doctor, I wouldn’t mind going to Youngston, Ohio for a couple of years, as long as I can start my own practice after that… I couldn’t even get into schools with 25 percent acceptance rates, what chance if any do I have for schools with 5-10 percent acceptance rates(medical schools in the U.S.)</p>
<p>Yes, it sometimes happens. No, it’s not how things usually happen. Sure, if you want to gamble like that, take your best shot.</p>
<p>It’s more risky that way than it is to stay in the States, though.</p>
<p>BTW- what about the waitlists???I mean you still have a decent shot at one of those!</p>
<p>^^^ I wish, If I got off ANY of my waitlists, I would go in a heartbeat, and work my ass off at those schools( the academic atmosphere and the focus of the other students, who go to these schools, would motivate me to work just as hard or harder than them)…I really want Emory, since they don’t use grade deflation like some other schools in the introductory science classes…</p>
<p>Too bad the number of waitlisted kids that get accepted is really low, oh well I don’t want to get my hopes up for the waitlists…I don’t know if I should visit any of the schools that waitlisted me…So far I have contacted all of the adcoms that MAY have reviewed my application, I have taken myself of Financial Aid, because I don’t need it, I have sent in an updated resume along with update counselor recommendation and an updated transcript…</p>
<p>I was accepted at Oxford College of Emory, where you go to Oxford College(a branch of Emory) for 1.5-2 years, and then you are allowed to transfer to Emory for your 3rd and 4th year, assuming you have a 3.0+ gpa…</p>
<p>BlueDevilMike-I agree that its more riskey if I go to SGU straight from High school, but I will probably end up in the Carribean anyway(if i go to A&M or baylor),…and I wouild have wasted a hundred+ grand…My parents don’t mind spending 200,000 grand for schools like Emory and Washu,…but they don’t think its worth it for A&M or baylor because they have seen so many pre-meds at A&M and baylor end up in medical schools in the Carribean or worse, Asia, they say its not worth going through all the trouble as a pre-med at A&M and baylor…</p>
<p>You should not go to the Caribbean anyway. If at the end of four years of undergrad you can’t make it into a US allopathic medical school, you should go to a US osteopathic medical school. If you can’t make it into that, you should go into a NP or a PA program. If you can’t get into those, then you should figure something else out.</p>
<p>Since you are from Texas you are actually in a really really good position. They have to take in 90% of their students from instate. This significantly increases your chances. I would stay in the US and try for a US medical school.</p>
<p>I am of the opinion that having a four-year undergraduate degree from a well-known university (and, yes, Baylor and A&M both count as pretty well known, I think) in the US cannot hurt in the long run. People trying to match to residency programs in the US from foreign medical schools have a harder time and their specialty choices are more limited. I would imagine (though this is unsubstantiated and I welcome input from someone else on this matter) that it’s harder yet when you’ve done your entire post-secondary education outside the US.</p>
<p>And I should say that I agree with BDM that the second preference for most pre-meds is definitely a DO school rather than a school in the Caribbean.</p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Going to SGU now will limit your opportunities far more than A&M or Baylor unless you are are worried that they might be too difficult for you, in which case I have to ask, why are you considering medicine in the first place? You can get a Medical degree from SGU but if you don’t pass the US PMLEs you won’t be a Doctor in the states anyway. Go to A7M or Baylor, do well and worst case apply to DO school. Your match opportunities will be far better than from a Caribbean school as BDM and other have already told you. In this case the (desired) end really does not justify the (compromised) means.</p>
<p>I thought you were in state Texas? I know plenty of doctors who are A&M grads in all areas from Primary care to Orthopaedics to Plastic Surgery. Their undergrad degree obviously did not hurt their med school chances</p>
<p>If you really want to got to Emory then why not go the Oxford route? </p>
<p>I go back to my original statement from a previous post; you are over reacting and about to make a bad decision.</p>
<p>This whole thing is starting to sound like perceived prestige and name brand of school is over taking all reason.</p>
<p>Also, if you go to undergrad first in the US you’ll be more well rounded and know a lot about various subjects.</p>