Plead to 3rd Years
By Guest on Tuesday, 02 March 2004
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3rd Year Students...
I am asking for a favor here. Please do not post questions about whether you will get into a residency or get an interview with board scores of whatever. Every one of us has stories about people we heard of who had a 210 and no publications and are currently sitting in the upper east side at HSS and the guy with a 272 and 8 first author papers who scrambled into GS. Bottom line is that we don't know. We haven't even matched yet. The people with a 200 who got 1 or 20 interviews may have gotten screwed or lucky. If you wouldn't trust the 4th years at your home institution for this info, why ask a bunch of people you have never met and could be completely full of crap? If somebody had told you that you wouldn't get into medschool would you have hung up the towel and said "well, some random guy on a chat site said that I had no chance so I am going to go wait tables."? Hell no. If you want to do ortho, great. Do it. But my chance of predicting where you will go and how many interviews you will get is as good as yours. If you are looking for anecdotes about people getting in with stats similar to yours, I will save you the trouble - people have done it. Just do a search for it and you will find it. I am just saving you the worry of listening to any advice you get on here.
Thanks.
MSIIIs (and others)

Definitely agreeing with busticate on this one. Ditto on all he said but I'll add one thing. I think that the single best source of information about whether you're competitive is your program director at your home school (assuming you have an ortho program). Other attendings, depending on how much they are in the admissions loop, can be an excellent source as well. Obviously no one can prevent anyone from posting whatever ridiculous thing they want to post on this board, but I would be extremely pragmatic about any information posted here.

Hopefully the MSIVs on the board will do what others have done in the past and post their credentials, where they interviewed, publications, where they matched, etc after match day. Then you will see exactly what busticate said, that people with great numbers can struggle and people with lesser numbers can excel and everything in between.

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OF - thank you...
I wanted to add one more thing in response to the common practice of posting scores and whatnot on the site after match. If you have a high score, consider just saying >230 or >240 or whatever. The only thing that saying you have a score of 280 will do is scare the hell out of people below you. This site can either instill hope (i.e. somebody with a score lower than mine got into program X) or sheer terror (i.e. the guy who had a higher score got his 15th choice). The key is to be realistic, and understand that if your scores, grades, etc... aren't stellar that you may have to work harder. By me telling you what I got will not/should not change anyone's approach. You know if you bombed step I or if your grades suck and will deal with it by working hard on rotations whether or not I tell you I scored a ___ on my boards. Likewise, if you aced your boards, you will probably work hard anyway, unless you are one of those annoying people who doesn't study and gets straight A's/280/AOA. I hate those people...
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