Still curious about this......anyone have any input.....
I really wouldn't worry about it as long as your other writers are good. No need to inadvertently give yourself a "red flag" by having a lukewarm letter from an attending who barely knew you
I didn't have a 4th year letter. Can you ask for a meeting on your IM sub-i to discuss this?
Maybe. It's an ICU sub-I and basically every patient is a covid patient, so morale/patience is a little low right now. If not having a fourth year/sub-I letter is ok, then I'm fine not getting one (I'm not applying very competitively anyways). I had just noticed some programs recommending it on their website and wasn't sure how much not having one would hurt.
I can't tell you for sure but IM does like their sub-i letters.
That’s been the precedence for COVID at least for my school. We had a ton of people miss chunks of time for COVID during the height of the pandemic last year and no ones needed to make anything up.
Man. If we miss 2 weeks of a rotation for covid, we have to repeat the rotation usually. Only a handful of people have had that happen.
Same here. You can only miss 3 days of a 4 week rotation. Anything more and you have to repeat the course.
Ours isn’t quite that strict. But you push on a week and they’ll have to talk about it.
Even if the school is the reason you cannot attend the rotation?
Probably overkill in my singular opinion
I agree probably overkill. Plus will probably be super expensive. The hardest part is trying to get them to overlap with cities for your advanced interviews, but what I did was reach out to prelims i applied to after I got interviews for rads at the same program and let them know I was still interested.
Oh no, that doesn’t count against you
None. All apps are released at the same time.
I applied 30 total (15 TY 15 prelim) with pretty much identical stats as you.
That seems like extreme overkill. Do you have any data to back up the need for 160 applications?
But there is a difference if you submit the supplemental application on either of those dates I believe.
wayyy over kill, as a USMD or DO, you shouldn't apply to over 100 programs especially if you dont have any red flags, even 80-90 is overkill...but with COVID and virtual interviews, 80-90 is the magic number.
I thought this was called a panic thread. Haha
The enormous difference is that you'd be done with ERAS on Sept 1 and could sit around for the next 4 weeks on the beach drinking margaritas.
When are these due? I’m doing them for prelims.
Also doing them for prelims. Per the guideline it says they are due 9/29 with the rest of the app.
there's a difference in when they are transmitted based on when you submit:
Your email is on your ERAS app....so yes, but who knows if they actually look.
“Accidentally”
Dude. I know this is the panic thread, but on that same page are multiple people confirming it including a (former) PD.
You want to do it earlier because when a bunch of people try to submit it last minute the system can crash from the high traffic and you might get f-ed. But if there are not tech problems then yes you're all good
Yes, that's fine. And you can put "please see detailed explanation in my PS" also.
Out of curiously were you originally planning on using a step 3 premade deck then?
Yup. But that quickly faded. I think I have ingrained enough information into my brain that I can succeed with just doing practice questions for step 3 and reading the answer explanations. I just can’t have it be part of my day anymore.
