Originally Posted by slevit1

for you to come to the caribbean would be an enormous mistake. Unless you have something screwed up in your application that you're not telling us about, or you can't give an interview at all, you should get in to the US.

Don't be too picky either...apply to a lot of schools, even if they wouldn't be your first choice. Better to be at a US school that you don't necessarily love than be in the caribbean.