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[radoncmonkey]

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Wow, guess Im the first to post.
Offered an interview at Loyola.

---Program(s) Interviewing you: Loyola
--Board Scores: Step I 268, Step II CK 277
--AOA and class rank: 1/200, junior AOA
--GPA: N/A
--Reputation of medical school: (top 10, top 25, etc) #1
--Research: (none, some radonc with no publications, radonc publications, other pubs): pHD, 3 nature, 2 science, 2 nejm pubs, 4 jco
--Honors in clerkships: (especially surgery, medicine and radonc) all
--# and where you did away rotations: 4 mdacc mskcc stanford ucsf
--# of programs you applied to: ~70
--Anything that helped your app: LOR from Cox, Hoppe, D'Amico

 

[Reaganite]

Wow, guess Im the first to post.
Offered an interview at Loyola.

---Program(s) Interviewing you: Loyola
--Board Scores: Step I 268, Step II CK 277
--AOA and class rank: 1/200, junior AOA
--GPA: N/A
--Reputation of medical school: (top 10, top 25, etc) #1
--Research: (none, some radonc with no publications, radonc publications, other pubs): pHD, 3 nature, 2 science, 2 nejm pubs, 4 jco
--Honors in clerkships: (especially surgery, medicine and radonc) all
--# and where you did away rotations: 4 mdacc mskcc stanford ucsf
--# of programs you applied to: ~70
--Anything that helped your app: LOR from Cox, Hoppe, D'Amico

LOL. Dude, you totally had me as I read everything except the pubs section!

 

[XRTmonster]

Wow, guess Im the first to post.
Offered an interview at Loyola.

---Program(s) Interviewing you: Loyola
--Board Scores: Step I 268, Step II CK 277
--AOA and class rank: 1/200, junior AOA
--GPA: N/A
--Reputation of medical school: (top 10, top 25, etc) #1
--Research: (none, some radonc with no publications, radonc publications, other pubs): pHD, 3 nature, 2 science, 2 nejm pubs, 4 jco
--Honors in clerkships: (especially surgery, medicine and radonc) all
--# and where you did away rotations: 4 mdacc mskcc stanford ucsf
--# of programs you applied to: ~70
--Anything that helped your app: LOR from Cox, Hoppe, D'Amico

Hmmm....mockery this early in the season

this should be fun year to apply, ha....

 

[Doctor&Geek]

Wow, guess Im the first to post.
Offered an interview at Loyola.

---Program(s) Interviewing you: Loyola
--Board Scores: Step I 268, Step II CK 277
--AOA and class rank: 1/200, junior AOA
--GPA: N/A
--Reputation of medical school: (top 10, top 25, etc) #1
--Research: (none, some radonc with no publications, radonc publications, other pubs): pHD, 3 nature, 2 science, 2 nejm pubs, 4 jco
--Honors in clerkships: (especially surgery, medicine and radonc) all
--# and where you did away rotations: 4 mdacc mskcc stanford ucsf
--# of programs you applied to: ~70
--Anything that helped your app: LOR from Cox, Hoppe, D'Amico

That Step I is a black spot on your application!

 

[radoncmonkey]

Looks like you need to have a 248 on step I and be number 1 in your class to get an interview at Loyola.

 

[XRTmonster]

It's early. I'm sure some interviews will start coming out to us mere mortals soon enough.

My school doesn't rank us and there is no way to tell clerkship grades until the Dean's letter is out. Transcripts only show P/F. Hopefully programs reviewing apps right now are aware of this...

 

[napoleondynamite]

Do schools normally send out ALL invites in one big batch? Or are there "waves" of interviews (ie-do we mere mortals still have a shot at getting interviews at the places who have already extended invites?) I would think that with so few being interviewed per school in radonc, they would invite everyone at once..anyone know?

 

[Gfunk6]

In my experience, the majority of schools send out interviews in one big batch. A few programs will send "waves" of applications, particularly if not many people are responding promptly to interview offers. This is why this thread is so useful. Last year if I read programs sent out invites and I was yet to be contacted then that meant rejection in > 90% cases.

As an aside, I think it is rather silly to have to post your "stats" on this thread. I would encourage posters reticent to do this to instead simply post which school offered you the interview sans stats. This is more useful to applicants anyway.

As an aside, I was interviewed at Loyola and my Step I was NOWHERE near 250. Just saying . . .

 

[clintpark]

I think posting stats would help if it's done after all the interview process is over. That way, future applicants can look at them, compare with their own, and have an idea where they stand compared to their peers. (that's why we are doing it, is it not?) Of course, those who post their stats is a different population than all rad onc applicants, so one should be cautious not to overread its significance.

Without accompanying info on how many interviews received and where (location as well as rank list) matched, its value is questionable. Besides, if someone gets 15 interviews, do we really want to see that person's stats 15 times?

Just my two cents...

 

[Gfunk6]

I absolutely agree w/ clintpark. Actually he wrote what I was thinking far more eloquently.

 

[napoleondynamite]

Agreed. I think it's a little presumptuous at this point to post stats. It's like giving the speech before you actually win the Emmy. 😉