A little advise please guys
School: pretty average academically - not top 50
Step 1: 249
Preclinical grades: 4.0
Clerkships: Honors in Family and that's it so far. I'm on medicine now.
AOA: Hopefully this spring
Research: co-author of 2 ortho projects with data collection complete; they should be published by the time I actually apply
Extra-curriculars: Div I college athlete, officer in student ortho and surgery interest groups, a couple community volunteer experiences
So, first off, I'm wondering what you guys think my chances are looking like as of right now. 249 is annoyingly close to the 250+ that seems to be the magic number, but that shouldn't make a difference in terms of being screened out right??
Also, an adviser at my school told me not to take step 2 until after applying, but I'm not sure if that would be to my advantage or not. She seemed to be very impressed with my step 1 score and thought that step 2 would only potentially hurt me, but 249 seems to be pretty pedestrian in terms of ortho scores these days so I'm wondering what my best option would be... Thanks in advance for the advice.
