How fatal is a “Pass” in surgery for an app?

[Detective John McClane]

Title says it all. If it helps, school is H/HP/P/LP/F.

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[cpants]

Not necessarily fatal as long as it is an exception on an otherwise excellent application.

 

[el_duderino]

I have never heard of such an intricate grading system before... Why not just do GPA if there are 4 different levels of "passing"?

Dude, we have a "P/F" system with three different levels of pass. It's ridiculous.

 

[Detective John McClane]

Not necessarily fatal as long as it is an exception on an otherwise excellent application.

How detrimental? I was expecting to have to find a different field. Not to turn this into a WAMC but ~250 step 1, 3 honors one high pass and obviously one pass. 3 uro publications.

As for low pass, it’s reserved for people with negative comments. Pass is for people who performed adequately with no negative comments who failed to impress anyone.

 

[armybound]

If medicine and ob/gyn grades are good, shouldn't be much of a problem.

 

[Detective John McClane]

If medicine and ob/gyn grades are good, shouldn't be much of a problem.

Managed to Honor OB/GYN. Is this situation something that would necessitate a year off for research?

 

[Detective John McClane]

Look at the google sheet, plenty of applicants who had no honors or didn't honor surgery are getting plenty of invites.

I think my step is about average for urology. Where is this years google doc? I've looked for it but all i can find is 2016-2017 application cycle.

 

[Detective John McClane]

Does anyone know where this year's google doc is? Or does it come out after everyone has heard back? I'd be curious to see some stats to gauge my competitiveness.

 

[armybound]

People usually post after they match, which is on Thursday.

You can probably expect urology numbers to be similar to ENT. If I had to guess, "average" Step is in the mid-low 240s.