away rotation thru mid-December too late?
By Guest on Tuesday, 02 March 2010
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We had a "lottery" for our senior year classes - 3 which are required for me - and I ended up getting screwed with having two of them scheduled in the first half of my 4th year. I'm planning on doing an ortho sub-I first block at home and then taking a month off for Step 2 since I have some room for improvement before I do aways. However with these other two classes it puts me in a situtaiton where I'd end up doing one of my away rotations through mid-december. Is that too late?? I figured I'd be able to schedule interviews after that. Also I'm just wondering if any programs I'm interviewing at will wonder why I don't have a LOR from that program I rotate at then because it might take a little while to have it written and sent to my school to be uploaded to ERAS. Anyone successfully do an away through mid-Dec and successfully get a LOR and have time for interviews?
You might miss a few interviews doing an away sub-i thru mid-december...Pitt comes to mind as a program that gets their interviews over with the first week of December.

Also, most programs have deadlines of around Nov 1st for all letters to be in, so I wouldn't count on getting a letter from a rotation that you do that late. If you don't need a letter from that away, then it's not an issue. I did an away that ended in late October and I thought it was still a little too late to get a letter on that rotation.
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I may just be paranoid, but I've heard that if you don't have a LOR from an away rotation then the interviewers are all going to wonder what happened (i.e. you you wern't good enough to write a letter for). Is there any merit to that? Clearly if the deadline is Nov 1 then thats the reason why I woulnd't have a LOR from that away rotation, but hopefully interviewers would understand in that situation.
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Or maybe I could rephrase my last post a little bit. Is there any point to doing an away rotation that goes beyond November 1?
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I am most likely planning on an away in November. I won't be using it for a letter, but it will be at a program I'd likely rank highly.
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Or maybe I could rephrase my last post a little bit. Is there any point to doing an away rotation that goes beyond November 1?


That depends. If you're doing it to get a letter, nope. If you just want to impress them and have them remember you when it's interview season, sure. If you just want to find out more about the program, absolutely.
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