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There's only 1 comment I made in regards to my post: That people with a 200-220 step 1 score DID match into Ortho. I made no comments as to how or why this happens.
What I like to point out is how the tone changed from "if you don't have X or Y board score you can't match into this specialty" to "If your application is otherwise STELLAR then a low board score can possibly be overlooked." If you read a few pages back on this thread (or on SDN in general) it seems like without a certain board score for your speciality you're out REGARDLESS of the rest of your app.
You can't take the data for what it is. You have to understand why and how that happens, that is the point of reading SDN. Being a publication machine or even going to Harvard are probably factors that help boost those people in the 220 range.
This is the point of why you need context to truly understand as to how to interpret the data. For instance, if I asked what what is easier match into, medical school with a 40% acceptance rate or ortho with a USMLE of 220 and a 60% match rate? You pretty much know it is getting into medical school with a 40% rate. You didn't understand this from the AAMC and NRMP data, but instead from actually communicating with people on this forum and also from people who have been through the process.