MD & DO Co’22 ERAS Panic Thread

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InFreudWeTrust said:
Off topic...But I finally worked up the courage to erase Anki from my desktop/phone a couple of weeks ago after letting go of my grand aspirations to start studying for Step 3, and I have to say, my life feels completely different. I feel like a normal human being again. Going forward, I think I will just learn from Qbanks. I no longer have the patience/motivation to wake up and see even 200 cards waiting for me. What a feeling.

Now I just have to muster up some motivation to make my ERAS experiences not sound like a 5th grader trying to rattle off his favorite school subject and sports team during a class presentation.
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I’ve been using anki for step 3 and it’s a daily struggle to not just delete it and use uworld or keep doing my 20 new cards a day lol. From the few uworld questions I’ve done I think anki is definitely not necessary. But old habits die hard lol
 
InFreudWeTrust said:
Off topic...But I finally worked up the courage to erase Anki from my desktop/phone a couple of weeks ago after letting go of my grand aspirations to start studying for Step 3, and I have to say, my life feels completely different. I feel like a normal human being again. Going forward, I think I will just learn from Qbanks. I no longer have the patience/motivation to wake up and see even 200 cards waiting for me. What a feeling.

Now I just have to muster up some motivation to make my ERAS experiences not sound like a 5th grader trying to rattle off his favorite school subject and sports team during a class presentation.
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Congrats! I would delete mine but I'm using anki to try and learn some of another language. Haven't touched any medical school cards though.
 
So is there a resource on what to expect yield wise for interviews? Im trying to stay within 4-5 hours of the house I own. I found 31 peds programs that have greater than 15-20% of DOs and whose step score im in the 50th percentile (230 for step 1, 241 for Step 2) for matched applicants. what return should I expect? 25% feels way to optomistic and that only lands me with 8ish interviews. Just wanting to know what to expect
 
ohmanwaddup said:
So is there a resource on what to expect yield wise for interviews? Im trying to stay within 4-5 hours of the house I own. I found 31 peds programs that have greater than 15-20% of DOs and whose step score im in the 50th percentile (230 for step 1, 241 for Step 2) for matched applicants. what return should I expect? 25% feels way to optomistic and that only lands me with 8ish interviews. Just wanting to know what to expect
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With those stats and being in the 50th percentile for step1 and step2 for those programs, I’d think you’d get around 10-12 interviews.
 
Noticing programs in my field of interest removing away rotation spots
 
Well just got my class rank...4th quartile. Ugh. Never really was serious about my grades but have excellent letters and clinical evals, decent step scores. Just doesn't feel good to get that info right before putting together all of my app.
 
NicMouse64 said:
Well just got my class rank...4th quartile. Ugh. Never really was serious about my grades but have excellent letters and clinical evals, decent step scores. Just doesn't feel good to get that info right before putting together all of my app.
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Is your class rank only based in preclinical years?
 
NicMouse64 said:
no, but I f***ed up some shelfs. Also really slacked hard preclinical years.
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Ahh I see. I'm still kinda in the dark for how my school compiles things (e.g. what goes on our MSPE, class rank, etc.) What are your overall clerkship grades?
 
NicMouse64 said:
Well just got my class rank...4th quartile. Ugh. Never really was serious about my grades but have excellent letters and clinical evals, decent step scores. Just doesn't feel good to get that info right before putting together all of my app.
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You'll be fine. Excellent letters will carry more weight than class ranking.
 
NicMouse64 said:
Well just got my class rank...4th quartile. Ugh. Never really was serious about my grades but have excellent letters and clinical evals, decent step scores. Just doesn't feel good to get that info right before putting together all of my app.
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At this point in med school I’m numb to ranking /scores . Just moving forward and passing
 
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That way all I'll have to do during application cycle is to make sure I apply and rank them.
 
Dumb question supplemental apps arent for people doing prelim/TY years right? And can someone explain to me why would prelim/TY need this other than its a requirement
 
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DrStephenStrange said:
They do interview students during audition rotations. I am on my first audition and have my first interview next week.
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Yep same here. This was my home program and I was part of the first audition block so they interview all of their auditioners while we’re on rotation. I had to bring a copy of my CV and such since they don’t have access to ERAS yet.
 
Chelsea FC said:
Dumb question supplemental apps arent for people doing prelim/TY years right? And can someone explain to me why would prelim/TY need this other than its a requirement
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I believe IM prelims are doing supplemental apps. Reason why I'm gonna stick with categorical programs for Neuro.
 
call me crazy but I am actually in favor of this supplemental IM app. Ive done a little more research on it and it looks like you can signal programs you like-for DO applicants i think this helps as many of the fourth years last year said that showing interest to programs got them interviews on many occasions. I think this may also help with the issue of having a ton of people apply to more programs because of virtual interviews making it easy to just click a button and not have to worry about travel expenses. I also like the geographic preference thing. I probably will get a lot of hate mail for this post lmao
 
Deecee2DO said:
call me crazy but I am actually in favor of this supplemental IM app. Ive done a little more research on it and it looks like you can signal programs you like-for DO applicants i think this helps as many of the fourth years last year said that showing interest to programs got them interviews on many occasions. I think this may also help with the issue of having a ton of people apply to more programs because of virtual interviews making it easy to just click a button and not have to worry about travel expenses. I also like the geographic preference thing. I probably will get a lot of hate mail for this post lmao
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I can see the benefits for sure, I just don’t want to do it haha.
 
Deecee2DO said:
call me crazy but I am actually in favor of this supplemental IM app. Ive done a little more research on it and it looks like you can signal programs you like-for DO applicants i think this helps as many of the fourth years last year said that showing interest to programs got them interviews on many occasions. I think this may also help with the issue of having a ton of people apply to more programs because of virtual interviews making it easy to just click a button and not have to worry about travel expenses. I also like the geographic preference thing. I probably will get a lot of hate mail for this post lmao
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I agree with you. The only part I think is silly is the five most meaningful experiences section. Like ok...I guess I'll just regurgitate what's already on my ERAS app?
 
fldoctorgirl said:
I agree with you. The only part I think is silly is the five most meaningful experiences section. Like ok...I guess I'll just regurgitate what's already on my ERAS app?
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Dude me neither. I really realy dont want to do it. My school hosted a webinar on it and the lady said it shouldnt take more than an hr or so to complete? whatever that means but it sounds like the AAMC doesnt want us taking hrs on end to complete it its more to mitigate so many applications to places people could care less about which i think its purpose is great
 
Deecee2DO said:
Dude me neither. I really realy dont want to do it. My school hosted a webinar on it and the lady said it shouldnt take more than an hr or so to complete? whatever that means but it sounds like the AAMC doesnt want us taking hrs on end to complete it its more to mitigate so many applications to places people could care less about which i think its purpose is great
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So for those of us dual applying with IM as one of those specialties, will other specialties see we filled out see
the supplemental app?
 
Who else is starting to semi-freak out about getting LORs uploaded? I've asked everyone I need to, but currently only have one uploaded (dude uploaded in June, the absolute GOAT). Sent out a general life update/gentle follow up email on Monday afternoon to the one whose letter I need/want the most (had some additions to my CV) but haven't heard anything back yet, and am currently panic spiraling haha. When are people planning to start sending more pointed reminders, and how are you wording them?
 
iwanttobelieve said:
Who else is starting to semi-freak out about getting LORs uploaded? I've asked everyone I need to, but currently only have one uploaded (dude uploaded in June, the absolute GOAT). Sent out a general life update/gentle follow up email on Monday afternoon to the one whose letter I need/want the most (had some additions to my CV) but haven't heard anything back yet, and am currently panic spiraling haha. When are people planning to start sending more pointed reminders, and how are you wording them?
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I reached out to the IM chair at my school a few days ago for a chair letter, no response… welp
 
fldoctorgirl said:
I agree with you. The only part I think is silly is the five most meaningful experiences section. Like ok...I guess I'll just regurgitate what's already on my ERAS app?
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“And these five experiences played the biggest role in me saying ‘**** clinical medicine.’ And that’s why I want radiology. Take me plz.”
 
So personal statements.....

Ive written mine, and it’s mostly about my journey and interests in the field. Not a lot about how cool I am/bring to the table. I just kinda assumed that kind of info would be brought up in interviews and would be fine to leave out. A lot of my friends are putting in their attributes and what not. Makes me wonder if I need to rewrite it.

I took it as “say why you want to do (insert speciality here) and what made you want to do it.

wondering if that was the wrong approach
 
iwanttobelieve said:
Who else is starting to semi-freak out about getting LORs uploaded? I've asked everyone I need to, but currently only have one uploaded (dude uploaded in June, the absolute GOAT). Sent out a general life update/gentle follow up email on Monday afternoon to the one whose letter I need/want the most (had some additions to my CV) but haven't heard anything back yet, and am currently panic spiraling haha. When are people planning to start sending more pointed reminders, and how are you wording them?
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I have 6 total (it’s so many because my advanced and prelims have different requirements than my categoricals) but only 2 have uploaded so far). I just sent an “update” about some dumb crap I did that doesn’t matter just to remind them without coming off as a nag. All but one replied back with something like “thanks! I’ll get it finished soon.” Interestingly the one who didn’t reply is the only one I wasn’t concerned about
 
ohmanwaddup said:
So personal statements.....

Ive written mine, and it’s mostly about my journey and interests in the field. Not a lot about how cool I am/bring to the table. I just kinda assumed that kind of info would be brought up in interviews and would be fine to leave out. A lot of my friends are putting in their attributes and what not. Makes me wonder if I need to rewrite it.

I took it as “say why you want to do (insert speciality here) and what made you want to do it.

wondering if that was the wrong approach
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Mine follows the same style. I didn't feel like listing a bunch of my technical attributes was what I wanted to focus on. It's clear from my CV/grades/etc. I focused on details that couldn't be found there, like the things that are important to me even outside of medicine and why I want to do IM.
 
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