Unfortunately my class rank has fallen over 3rd year to somewhere in the 3rd quartile from 2nd quartile. The rest of my application is excellent with a step 1 of 240+ and a step 2 CK of 270 and plenty of urology and other research. My question is how bad will this hurt me for Urology?
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May or may not be ok. Depends on what your grades were, especially in surgery.
Did ok in surgery. Like I said, we don't necessarily rank each individual class but I did above average in surgery with a good shelf exam (88th percentile).
Grades are set up as H/P/F with no HP. Unfortunately my situation is not simple. I actually did above the mean in all my 3rd year grades but fell in class rank...I believe this may be from being put in a new cohort of students (I took a year to do research between 2nd and 3rd year) and from poorly functioning students dropping class. I kind of got screwed because I think I'm right at that tipping point between 3rd and 2nd quartile, but just happened to fall on the wrong side. The way our dean's letter is set up they won't see that I dropped quartiles in 3rd year it will simply be reported as 3rd quartile for entire medical school.
No bad evaluations at all. All the evaluations depict me as an outstanding student with most of them saying "above average" and my surgery saying well above average.
