All HPs in third year

[XRanger]

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How would this look? While it's not necessarily a bad thing, it's not really good either. Our school grading system is H/HP/P/F. People have told me you need some honors to get into top specialty or top programs.
I'm considering anesth, EM, or rads in somewhat good programs either in west or east coast.
Step 1 is good and haven't taken step 2 yet.
Hopefully I can get some honors during subI, but can I get by with all HPs in third year?

 

[MilkmanAl]

With a good Step 1 and middle-of-the-road specialties, you'll probably be just fine. The more competitive rads programs may be a stretch, but I can't see you having any issues if just matching somewhere is your goal.

 

[Siverhideo1985]

If you're able to consistently pull of HP in all your clerkships I would think that you'd be able to do one or two honors in fields your like more!

But I think even with all high pass you'd look plenty good, even for competitive programs, esp if you get good letters of rec and there are no red flags on your app.

Assuming the system works the same as it does at our school your HP still always puts you above average for your class.

 

[officedepot]

How does the scale work at schools that still use A/B/C/F vs honors/high pass/pass/ fail. Is the scale the same in the eyes of residencies (obv looking at the percent grade assigned to students in the class for each rotation)? do most people get Bs and maybe 35-40% get As/honors depending on the rotation?

 

[ArcGurren]

All HPs isn't a bad thing... despite what the skewed SDN distribution might lead you to believe most people get passes/HPs in their clerkships and much fewer people get Honors in those clerkships.

 

[2012mdc]

How would this look? While it's not necessarily a bad thing, it's not really good either. Our school grading system is H/HP/P/F. People have told me you need some honors to get into top specialty or top programs.
I'm considering anesth, EM, or rads in somewhat good programs either in west or east coast.
Step 1 is good and haven't taken step 2 yet.
Hopefully I can get some honors during subI, but can I get by with all HPs in third year?

West coast rads is pretty competitive but all HP isn't a dealbreaker. It also matters how easy/hard it is to get Honors at your particular program

How does the scale work at schools that still use A/B/C/F vs honors/high pass/pass/ fail. Is the scale the same in the eyes of residencies (obv looking at the percent grade assigned to students in the class for each rotation)? do most people get Bs and maybe 35-40% get As/honors depending on the rotation?

Can only speak for my school but here A/B/C is exactly equivalent to honors/HP/pass. Nowhere near 40% get honors. 10-20% depending on the rotation.

All HPs isn't a bad thing... despite what the skewed SDN distribution might lead you to believe most people get passes/HPs in their clerkships and much fewer people get Honors in those clerkships.

I agree. I can't imagine all HP's hurting OP in GAS or EM. Would probably only hurt at the most competitive programs for rads

 

[mmmcdowe]

This is very school dependent. First, it depends on how many honors your school gets out. Mine tends to hover in the 30-40% range (reportedly, I wonder sometimes if it is less) for honors and about the same for HP, with each specialty giving more or less based on the course director. The big kicker though is they include a summary of the grade breakdown by rotation in your packet. Assuming the programs read it, this could significantly affect the perception of our grades. Now if they don't, it is probably in our favor because we are essentially a tad grade inflated.

 

[username456789]

This is very school dependent. First, it depends on how many honors your school gets out. Mine tends to hover in the 30-40% range (reportedly, I wonder sometimes if it is less) for honors and about the same for HP, with each specialty giving more or less based on the course director. The big kicker though is they include a summary of the grade breakdown by rotation in your packet. Assuming the programs read it, this could significantly affect the perception of our grades. Now if they don't, it is probably in our favor because we are essentially a tad grade inflated.

Holy hell. 30-40% Honors? A "tad" inflated? That's some major grade inflation.

Our school gives honors to top 5-10%

 

[MSmentor018]

only thing that's important is getting honors's/A's on the rotation of the specialty you're planning to enter. if you screw that up, your chances go down. rest of the grades is gravy. look at NRMP.com. it tells you detailed info on what each specialty looks for