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I am a current MS1 at a top-40 NIH funded school (not sure if that is relevant or not? I was told that mattered, but have a hard time believing that) that is interested in neurosurgery. I was wondering, have people found pre-clinical coursework performance to be a significant factor looked at by residency directors? The school that I am at is P/F, so it is difficult to evaluate my performance thus far outside of getting the score distributions after some of our exams. Although this school is P/F, I have been told that on the Dean's letter they include whether or not a student was in the top 20th percentile of the class. Like I said, I think things have been going well so far, but if I end up outside of the top 20%, are my hopes of going into neurosurgery gone? Could this be overcome by a strong Step 1 score/research/strong LORs/etc? I am guessing that I will have a better idea of where I stand once I am into my rotations3rd year where I will be graded honors/high pass/pass/etc. We have AOA, but I am trying not to focus on that too much, as part of our selection process is a political process and not just merit based. I have also been contacting research labs and will be starting in a lab at my home institution soon.
Thank you for reading and any feedback is greatly appreciated.
I am a current MS1 at a top-40 NIH funded school (not sure if that is relevant or not? I was told that mattered, but have a hard time believing that) that is interested in neurosurgery. I was wondering, have people found pre-clinical coursework performance to be a significant factor looked at by residency directors? The school that I am at is P/F, so it is difficult to evaluate my performance thus far outside of getting the score distributions after some of our exams. Although this school is P/F, I have been told that on the Dean's letter they include whether or not a student was in the top 20th percentile of the class. Like I said, I think things have been going well so far, but if I end up outside of the top 20%, are my hopes of going into neurosurgery gone? Could this be overcome by a strong Step 1 score/research/strong LORs/etc? I am guessing that I will have a better idea of where I stand once I am into my rotations3rd year where I will be graded honors/high pass/pass/etc. We have AOA, but I am trying not to focus on that too much, as part of our selection process is a political process and not just merit based. I have also been contacting research labs and will be starting in a lab at my home institution soon.
Thank you for reading and any feedback is greatly appreciated.
