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Something I've been wondering in my anxiety of hearing other people are applying to the same specialty as me!
Does each residency compare you to the other students applying from your school?
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Well that’s gonna happen . Think about it this way, they could pick all of you , none of you, or some of you. Whatever you do, do not bad mouth the other student or your school
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First thing they're gonna do is screen by Step scores. If you make the cut then they start looking at individual apps. Because a committee selects interview applicants, there's a strong possibility that not every committee member is familiar with all the invited applicants. So the chance that they're comparing individual applicants from individual schools is probably small. You should compare yourself to the applicant pool in general and look at previous years' match data to understand how competitive you are.
As an aside, I was invited to interview at top programs that other folks from my school were not invited to, despite having better stats than me. And I was passed over by several schools that invited classmates with lower stats. So to a certain degree, it's a clusterf*ck to try to figure out how interviewees are selected..
As an aside, I was invited to interview at top programs that other folks from my school were not invited to, despite having better stats than me. And I was passed over by several schools that invited classmates with lower stats. So to a certain degree, it's a clusterf*ck to try to figure out how interviewees are selected..
