As an example, look at the FREIDA page for Banner Good Samaritan in AZ (I can't do a direct link it seems, but you can find it easily enough).
Under the heading "general information" there's a table called "USMLE Step 1 and Step 2 requirements for interview consideration," and they list both Step 1 and Step 2 as requirements.
I have three questions about this as I think about my schedule:
1) To get an interview at Banner, you'd need to have your Step 2 score back before early November, when interview invites go out? IE you need to take the test sometime between September (late enough that it doesn't automatically go out with your ERAS on 9/15/13, but early enough that you can choose to release it to programs for interview consideration).
2) Have many of you heard that MOST programs don't even require a score to RANK you? IE you don't even have to have a score when rank order lists are finalized on 2/26/14?
3) Most advice I've gotten is to take Step 2 late enough in the year that it isn't part of consideration for interviews, but that I needed to take it early enough to have the score by the time programs were ranking their interviewees. Does anyone have any comment on this advice?
