Pass = High Pass?

[kl323]

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So for my past few clerkships, I've been pulling only high passes. I'm pretty satisfied with my grades and evaluations, but who doesn't want honors?

Anyway, I am aware that programs look at the number of honors that appear on one's transcript (Charting Outcomes). So my question is... Are high passes pretty irrelevant? It's better than a pass, but it doesn't do much in terms of boosting one's credential...?

Just wondering!

Again, not complaining about my grade! Very happy with it, but I am curious.

 

[cartoondoc]

It depends on:

1) What specialty you want to do

2) How the rest of your class is doing. If your school ranks you in your class and you're getting HP when everyone else is getting Honors, you could actually fall in the bottom half of the class

 

[MossPoh]

My school doesn't even have a high pass. We have honors, pass and fail. I don't think it is irrelevant unless a huge percent of the class gets it. You have no idea how much it sucks to get honors evaluations and honor the shelf but get the same grade as someone who got sub-par evaluations and 10th percentile on NBME because you turned in one paper a little after the brand new deadline.

 

[mmmcdowe]

While we do have H/HP/P/F, pass has almost become non-existent (~10%). Almost everyone high passes, which means if you do so poorly as to pass you probably raise eyebrows.

 

[JackShephard MD]

Seems like HP is irrelevant unless it is bumping your class ranking significantly.

 

[Deceptacon]

honors or family residency, you decide bro

 

[Pinworm]

at my school Honors is limited to top 5% and high pass is limited to the next 10%..so for me high pass means alot more than juts a pass (which ~80% get).