Screening applicants on ERAS

[krisrad]

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Quick question.

Can PDs screen your individual course grades easily, like they can for Step scores, AOA, etc., on ERAS? My application overall is decent to solid - if I do say so myself - except for a glaring "HP" in my Internal Medicine rotation. I was just wondering why people with similar stats to mine have gotten interviews at certain programs and I haven't.

...And does it mean anything that someone else got an interview many, many days before me and I haven't heard back?

Thanks in advance, guys.

 

[jerseytrash]

Quick question.

Can PDs screen your individual course grades easily, like they can for Step scores, AOA, etc., on ERAS? My application overall is decent to solid - if I do say so myself - except for a glaring "HP" in my Internal Medicine rotation. I was just wondering why people with similar stats to mine have gotten interviews at certain programs and I haven't.

...And does it mean anything that someone else got an interview many, many days before me and I haven't heard back?

Thanks in advance, guys.

Direct answer to your question - to my understanding yes programs can sort by score/AOA/whatever because of the way the software is set up.

Long answer - sure they can, but the fact that others have gotten interviews before you doesn't mean anything. Some programs invite in waves, others haven't started inviting anyone at all, and some programs first invite everyone above a certain threshold prior to inviting others (when they actually start looking at apps). So don't overanalyze the situation and accept that there is some degree of arbitrariness to this. I freaked out about this too last year and it ended up mattering squat.

Also, an HP in your medicine rotation is not going to screen you out of all "top" programs (whatever that means short of JHH, Brigham, Penn, etc). You'll be fine. It's IM, not neurosurgery.

 

[chargersfan]

Direct answer to your question - to my understanding yes programs can sort by score/AOA/whatever because of the way the software is set up.

Long answer - sure they can, but the fact that others have gotten interviews before you doesn't mean anything. Some programs invite in waves, others haven't started inviting anyone at all, and some programs first invite everyone above a certain threshold prior to inviting others (when they actually start looking at apps). So don't overanalyze the situation and accept that there is some degree of arbitrariness to this. I freaked out about this too last year and it ended up mattering squat.

Also, an HP in your medicine rotation is not going to screen you out of all "top" programs (whatever that means short of JHH, Brigham, Penn, etc). You'll be fine. It's IM, not neurosurgery.

Yes but I have heard it does screen you out of some of the top programs, especially in California (UCSF, UCLA, Stanford)

 

[jerseytrash]

Yes but I have heard it does screen you out of some of the top programs, especially in California (UCSF, UCLA, Stanford)

Then they are using a ridiculous metric to screen applicants. I'm not entirely sure UCSF's selection process makes that much logical sense anyway - lots of perfectly great applicants get auto-screened out by whatever method they use.

 

[krisrad]

So when will be a reasonable time to start worrying about lack (or a scarcity) of interviews then? Middle of next week?

 

[gutonc]

So when will be a reasonable time to start worrying about lack (or a scarcity) of interviews then? Middle of November?

Fixed that for you.

 

[deleted280727]

Fixed that for you.

Thank you for this.