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  Sunday, 22 May 2011
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I'm real happy with my step I score, but my clinical grades are frustrating. I'm just looking to see where I stand with my only H being in surgery. Still have one more rotation, but not especially hopeful about it. I'd love to stay in the northeast and someplace academic, but I'll take anything. Any advice on my chances or where to do aways would be greatly appreciated.

-Northeast midtier school
-Step I: 253
-Preclinicals: Honors probably less than half
-Clinicals: HP all except in Surgery/Ortho
-Not AOA
-Research: 2 abstracts, 1 poster, 3 abstracts in submission, working on another project now, and 1 undergrad poster. No publications yet.
-Other stuff: eboard on a few campus organizations, engineering background
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Good Step One, a handful of preclinical honors (can't hurt) one honor in perhaps your most important rotation with the rest being HP, and a decent amount of research experience. You're chances aren't too bad. Maybe talk to some of the attendings and residents you worked with and see what it was that kept you in the "HP" range. Whatever your last rotation is, take that feedback and use it.

Re: Away rotations, find someone in the department who can give you some HONEST feedback wrt to past students from your school, what their grades were, where they matched etc.
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I wouldn't worry about your chances, but I am no expert. But what exactly in the criteria for H/HP/P at your school, and does your school put in on the MSPE?

I ask this because not all schools have the same grading criteria for H/HP/P for clinical rotations. For example at my school no more than 10% can honor clinical rotations, and no more than 20% can High pass, but from talking to friends at other schools, it seems like everyone can honor if they get good evals. Feel free to correct me if you disagree.

I imagine that PDs would have to take this into account. I also have heard that they care more about what the clinical eval actually says compared to the letter grade.
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Some schools really really care about 3rd year honors and even include it into their ranking criteria and some don't care at all. I had a similar situation as you and matched quite well, but I also didn't just apply to top 10 programs. I applied widely and get more interviews than I thought I would. I think you actually won't have any problems at all, even less so if your Step 2 score is great and even less so if you apply widely.
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Thanks for the replies. My school uses 5 grades for evaluation and an HP is equivalent to a 4. Not sure if there's a limit on how many students get each, but I think it's top 10-15% honor, top 30% HP. Hopefully that's seen in a good light.

I'll definitely apply broadly, but how many programs did you apply to?
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Most of the people I know that matched in the last 2 years applied to 50+
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