The credentialing process for a training license is dependent on state guidelines and is completely separate from the interviewing process. The program coordinator who reviews these is not doing it to look at scores, but verify completion of minimum requirements. No one is going to notice if you said one thing during your interview and another thing shows up on your transcript they're collecting after the match. That said, you should never lie. If you do not want the USMLE score released, do not release it and then if asked about it on interview day say that you passed the exam comfortably if you did pass. If they really press to give a score, you use your discretion to decide whether you want to reveal your score or state you don't recall the specifics but will get back to them. Frankly, any respectable interviewer/program should not be asking you for a numerical score on an interview. The interview should be an independent assessment of you. The only time scores should be brought up is if you failed or did very well to answer a question about what happened. If there was a question, it should have been clarified before the decision to invite the applicant or it should be discussed during the time of ranking at which point if they dont see a score on an official document, they will have to assume and rank accordingly. If I was in charge, I would add soliciting of scores as an illegal interview question. Programs can review these prior to interview selection and again prior to ranking applicants. If programs want to see a CK score before RoL, make the applicant aware of that in a generalized way. Soliciting a score from an applicant during the interview adds no value to the interview as the score will be available (or not- in which case assume what you need to rank) prior to RoL deadline besides putting pressure on the applicant and introducing more bias to an already subjective process.
