General Surgery WAMC / Help With Program List

[SavvySalmon]

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Med School: Mid Tier USMD
M1-M2 grades: Pass/Fail; all pass
M3 grades: 6/7 honors, HP Peds
M4 grades: Honors in Gen surg AIs
Class rank: 1st quartile
Step 1: Pass
Step 2: 276
AOA: Yes
GHHS: No
Demographics: white
Research: 4 projects that have been either submitted or in process with 1 published. ~12 research experiences listed on ERAS
Extracurriculars: A lot of tutoring and MedEd stuff that is pretty central to my career goals and application, interest group kind of stuff.
LORs: Good chair letter, APD letter, Division chief of high regard letter, and an assistant professor letter. I'd say all are strong and would vouch for me.
Geographic Signaling: Pacific, Mountain, East North Central
Red flags: None
Career goals: Surg onc maybe trauma/ACS
Signals: In no particular order - UCSF, Stanford, UCLA Geffin, Northwestern, UChicago, Michigan, USC/LAC, Cedar Sinai, UC San Diego, Colorado, Washington, UCLA Harbor, UC Davis, UI Chicago, UC Irvine, and my home school which thankfully not requiring us to signal.

Others: (Reach): Pitt, Johns Hopkins, Beth Israel, Mass Gen, Brigham Womens, UPenn, Vandy, Yale. (Targets): Oregon, Case Western, Ohio State, Maryland, Emory, Tufts, Boston Univ, Thomas Jefferson, Temple, Arizona Phoenix, Utah, Indiana. (baseline): Cleveland Clinic, George washington, Georgetown, Kaiser permanente LA, Loyola, Mayo Arizona, MCW, Rutgers, Case western/Metro health, Arizona Tuscon, UCSF Fresno, UCSF East bay, New Mexico, Wisconsin, Rush.

Q's:
-Is this list delusional? Is this a list I can get 12+ interviews from? Feel like my signals have 6 reaches, 4 targets, and 5 baselines. Not expecting much from my non signals, basically going hard in the geo preferences with programs I'd be happy to attend and learn more about. Hoping for a couple extra interviews.

-I'll be couples matching with a strong IM applicant (26x 2nd quartile). Any changes to try and maximize ranks in the same city?

 

[DOVinciRobot]

Nothing is considered a reach for you.

The couples matching will make things more difficult, apply broadly and make sure to make it known to programs you are couples matching. If one of you gets an interview somewhere the other doesn’t, reach out to the program and explain the situation. Get further advice from people who have couples matched.

 

[MDMechEngr]

You are not delusional. You are golden.

 

[SavvySalmon]

Nothing is considered a reach for you.

The couples matching will make things more difficult, apply broadly and make sure to make it known to programs you are couples matching. If one of you gets an interview somewhere the other doesn’t, reach out to the program and explain the situation. Get further advice from people who have couples matched.

We're definitely planning on both reaching out to respective programs where one gets and interview and the other doesn't. Hoping we can collect a couple extra interviews from that hence the big list. Both hoping for same city and an academic program. Thanks for your reply!

 

[SavvySalmon]

You are not delusional. You are golden.

Thanks for the reply, the signal situation and couples match makes it feel a little more stressful. Just don't want to signal too high and not get enough interviews to successfully match in the same city with my partner, but overall feeling fortunate to be in this position.