Agreed. This is straight from UCSF's website: "In recent years, most of our interviewees have had three-digit scores of 240 or higher on Step 1. The small number of our interviewees with Step 1 scores between 200 and 239 have had offsetting factors such as a combination of top clinical grades at a competitive medical school and extraordinary research experience and academic promise. Once an applicant is selected for an interview, USMLE scores have little bearing on the final rank."
I'm not saying that everyone is necessarily on an even keel when they get to the interview stage, but I think that the interview and 3rd year grades are the most important factors that PDs consider when they make their final rank list. Obviously at research-heavy institutions, having done SOME sort of radiology research is most likely necessary to get ranked highly (or even get an interview in the first place)
