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The big reason we pushed for a change was because taking step 1 in June (after 3rd year) = no score back until July of 4th year. Which means at that point it's far too late to make any major career changes if you've done worse or better than you expected on step 1.
(ERAS is submitted in September and VSAS for away electives opens in May, before taking step 1)
Not to mention the difficulty of applying for and getting away electives w/o a step 1 score. (Also since no one knows or cares about CBSE practice test scores as a determinate of competitiveness).
That outweighed any and all changes to length of clerkships for us and the class of 2020 as well.
Also they've given us 4 extra weeks of flexible time in 4th year as well and one less week of transition week at the end of 2nd year.
All of that is outweighed (for most of our class) by the fact we are no longer the latest school in the US at taking step 1.
For future classes it may change again but for 2019 & 2020 that's how it's set up.
We all think 2018 will do fine and wish them the best, we just decided if we could make a change that it was worth it to take it earlier.
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(ERAS is submitted in September and VSAS for away electives opens in May, before taking step 1)
Not to mention the difficulty of applying for and getting away electives w/o a step 1 score. (Also since no one knows or cares about CBSE practice test scores as a determinate of competitiveness).
That outweighed any and all changes to length of clerkships for us and the class of 2020 as well.
Also they've given us 4 extra weeks of flexible time in 4th year as well and one less week of transition week at the end of 2nd year.
All of that is outweighed (for most of our class) by the fact we are no longer the latest school in the US at taking step 1.
For future classes it may change again but for 2019 & 2020 that's how it's set up.
We all think 2018 will do fine and wish them the best, we just decided if we could make a change that it was worth it to take it earlier.
Sent from my iPhone using SDN mobile