With the way people talk on this forum it seems as though your step 1 score can take you anywhere as long as it is high enough. I just finished the first rotation (peds) of my third year and didn't get a great evaluation (my one attending trashed me). I know I could probably do better, I was mostly bored and tired during this rotation and telling everybody that I had no interest in peds and wanted to do anesthesia probably didn't help. My step 1 score was 230, I have multiple publications in a non-anesthesia field and was enrolled in a master's program for pharmacology (never finished) prior to med school. My question is, can I just cruise through third year getting average evaluations and still get in somewhere? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.