USMD
Step1: 246
Step2: 248
Ended up in 4th quartile of my class (1H, 4HP, 2P) - got a P on IM during 3rd year clerkships unfortunately, but got Honors with very strong evals on my IM sub-I (the grade and evals from my sub-I are all put into my Dean's MSPE letter.. hoping it can help a bit).
Besides that ugly dent in my app, the rest of it I believe is solid, with good/well-rounded ECs.
In terms of research, I've been active in cardiology since M1 year - have about 3 publications currently (plus another 2 more by the time I graduate M4), 8 abstracts, 4 poster/oral presentations at ntl conferences, and 1 published case report.
I'm just wondering if the 4th quartile class ranking just completely destroyed my chances of matching back home to CA programs like USC, UC Irvine, UC Davis, UCSD, Cedars-Sinai, UCLA etc etc.
I currently go to medical school in the Northeast and would love to stay in the NYC/Philly areas too, if CA isn't an option anymore. My goal is to go academic program to set me up for fellowship, however, if not I'll take a community in CA. Hence my community selections were all in CA, while elsewhere I applied academic nationally. Is this safe?
I have no idea where I stand now as an applicant given my class ranking bomb of a news.
Can someone suggest what range of school programs I should apply for?
Current list as below -
CA:
California Pacific Medical Center
Cedars-Sinai
KP Oakland
KP San Francisco
KP Los Angeles
Santa Clara Valley Medical
Scripps Green - San Diego
Loma Linda
UCLA-Harbor
Olive View/UCLA
UC Davis
UC Irvine
USC
UCSD
UCLA
UCSF
West:
UWashington Seattle
OHSU
UColorado
Chicago:
Loyola
Rush
U of Illinois
Northwestern McGaw
UChicago
Texas:
UTSW
UTHouston
Baylor
UTSan Antonio
Upper NE:
Tufts
BostonU
Brown
UMass
DMV:
UMaryland
Hopkins-Bayview
Georgetown
NY/NJ:
Montefiore
Stony Brook
Manhattan big4 (NYU, Mt Sinai, Columbia, Cornell) - total crapshoot I know but I love Manhattan
Hofstra
Rutgers NJMS
Rutgers RWJ
Philly:
Sidney Kimmel
Temple
UPMC
Florida:
UFlorida Gainsville
UMiami
Other midwest (although I don't really want to go here location-wise, but I understand that beggars can't be choosers):
MCW
UWisconsin
Case Western
Ohio State
CCF
UCincy