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To all 4th years, residents, or physicians out there, (or anyone else that can offer advice)...
I would like to do 2 away electives and need your help. One of these electives, I would like to do at one of "my" top choice schools that I have a fighting chance to get in, and the other at a "dream" program like Harvard, Hopkins, etc. Do you think that I should apply to do the away elective at the "dream" school like Harvard, Hopkins, etc. in order to get good recommendations from some of their world renowned faculty? Will the experience, the name on my transcripts, plus the recommendations REALLY help me to get into a good residency program (along with having good grades and average Step scores...)? Or do you think that my time would be better spent at some of my other middle choice schools? I am interested in General Surgery and of course I'm going to try to match at Harvard or Johns Hopkins because of their excellent reputation and facilities,but I don't know if I'd be competitive and might not even interview anyway. So, I was thinking that if I did do one elective with either of these programs, then maybe a "glowing" recommendation from a world renowned surgeon might help me to get into another great program. Thanks for your help. --BeeGee
I would like to do 2 away electives and need your help. One of these electives, I would like to do at one of "my" top choice schools that I have a fighting chance to get in, and the other at a "dream" program like Harvard, Hopkins, etc. Do you think that I should apply to do the away elective at the "dream" school like Harvard, Hopkins, etc. in order to get good recommendations from some of their world renowned faculty? Will the experience, the name on my transcripts, plus the recommendations REALLY help me to get into a good residency program (along with having good grades and average Step scores...)? Or do you think that my time would be better spent at some of my other middle choice schools? I am interested in General Surgery and of course I'm going to try to match at Harvard or Johns Hopkins because of their excellent reputation and facilities,but I don't know if I'd be competitive and might not even interview anyway. So, I was thinking that if I did do one elective with either of these programs, then maybe a "glowing" recommendation from a world renowned surgeon might help me to get into another great program. Thanks for your help. --BeeGee