Hi guys,
I have always been interested in Neurosurgery but find myself intimidated by the idea of it and steering myself to GS. As it turns out, I will be doing a neurosurgery rotation in January of 2016 as part of my core surgery clerkship.
My question is: if I more or less fall in love with Neurosurgery that late in the year, how detrimental would it be to my application?
A little bit about me--
School: Low tier, mid atlantic
Step 1: 237
AOA: No
Class rank: 3rd quartile, failed a course in 2nd year (someone died the week of the test, didn't study for it; passed course on retake)
Research: 5 papers, all in GS or CT Surgery. None 1st author. Will be submitting stuff to CT conference and journals as first author this winter so I should have at least 1 or 2 first author abstracts and/or papers.
Clerkship grades: IM (pass), psych (pass) so far.
Give it to me straight, fellas.
Thanks a bunch!
I have always been interested in Neurosurgery but find myself intimidated by the idea of it and steering myself to GS. As it turns out, I will be doing a neurosurgery rotation in January of 2016 as part of my core surgery clerkship.
My question is: if I more or less fall in love with Neurosurgery that late in the year, how detrimental would it be to my application?
A little bit about me--
School: Low tier, mid atlantic
Step 1: 237
AOA: No
Class rank: 3rd quartile, failed a course in 2nd year (someone died the week of the test, didn't study for it; passed course on retake)
Research: 5 papers, all in GS or CT Surgery. None 1st author. Will be submitting stuff to CT conference and journals as first author this winter so I should have at least 1 or 2 first author abstracts and/or papers.
Clerkship grades: IM (pass), psych (pass) so far.
Give it to me straight, fellas.
Thanks a bunch!