Seems about right. The days of 220 or above being a safe score for surgery are gone. Now it's more like 230 or above - higher for top programs.
Oddly enough, last year I spoke to someone on the interview trail who had done a sub-I at NYU. She told me she was shocked by how little experience in the OR the residents at NYU were given. According to her it wasn't unusual to seen PGY3's chomping at the bit to be given a chance to close - such was the paucity of their OR experience. She definately wouldn't rank the place, she confided. Well, I was looking at program websites about a week ago to see if I recognized anyone from the trail. I noticed that this very same person who was badmouthing NYU was listed as one of the new NYU catagorical interns for 06/07. Just goes to show, you can't really trust much of the word of mouth "information" that you get from other candidates during the season.
If NYU wasn't already malignant enough, the addition of this individual just made it a little bit more malignant. I'm glad I ranked NYU low on my list. I'd hate to have to work with colleages like that.