Sigma Sigma Phi

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Osteopathic service and honors fraternity. Has anyone heard of this and is it actually worth joining and keeping membership through community service? Will it stick out on residency apps?
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Billroth_III said:
Lol some students at my school think this is the most important part of their app and if you're not in ssp will literally look down on you. Save yourself OP and do something that will actually help you in your future.
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Lol I experienced a little of that. It’s literally a popularity contest at my school. And if you win you get the prestigious honor of setting up labs for the school you pay tuition to at 7pm. Oh yeah, sounds awesome...
 
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Meh. Only like 10 people from each of my schools classes do it according to the annual report schools send in. Chapters — ΣΣΦ (sigmasigmaphi.org

for 60$ and community service I already do, I might as well. I won't be looking down at people not in it tho fosho. That's just rude
 
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought SSP is the most similar analog to AOA? My school doesn't have any other honor society/frat other than SSP that selects applicants based on academic numbers. If one is not at the top quartile, would SSP help distinguish themselves academically in terms of extracurricular?

What are the commitments if one gets selected for SSP? And how does its prestige/workload compared to Gold Humanism Honor Society?
 
DameJulie said:
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought SSP is the most similar analog to AOA? My school doesn't have any other honor society/frat other than SSP that selects applicants based on academic numbers. If one is not at the top quartile, would SSP help distinguish themselves academically in terms of extracurricular?

What are the commitments if one gets selected for SSP? And how does its prestige/workload compared to Gold Humanism Honor Society?
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The thing is SSP is not as rigorous in their selection process as AOA. I know people in the top quartile in my class that don't have it and also people in 2nd quartile that got it. It's just ridiculous. Residency program directors usually don't care about SSP from what I've seen. They most likely will just rely on your class rank and board scores.
 
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DameJulie said:
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought SSP is the most similar analog to AOA? My school doesn't have any other honor society/frat other than SSP that selects applicants based on academic numbers. If one is not at the top quartile, would SSP help distinguish themselves academically in terms of extracurricular?

What are the commitments if one gets selected for SSP? And how does its prestige/workload compared to Gold Humanism Honor Society?
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Need a 3.5 GPA I think
 
LOL no one cares about that ****, no one other than some former aoa program directors even know what it is, it’s not the AOA, and yes your class rank and board scores matter a whole lot more than if your in SSP...
 
DameJulie said:
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I thought SSP is the most similar analog to AOA? My school doesn't have any other honor society/frat other than SSP that selects applicants based on academic numbers. If one is not at the top quartile, would SSP help distinguish themselves academically in terms of extracurricular?

What are the commitments if one gets selected for SSP? And how does its prestige/workload compared to Gold Humanism Honor Society?
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Completely meaningless at my school. All you have to be is in the top half of the class and not fail anything. But... they only take 20-ish members a year, and the current members vote on the applications for who gets in. It’s in theory blinded because they “take the names off” the essays and statements... but it’s pretty easy to tell who’s who. The current members just vote to admit their best friends.

We have a lot of people scraping the top 1/2 in there and lots of people in the top 1/4 that were rejected. It’s just a popularity contest and actually has nothing to do with achievement.
 
Neopolymath said:
Lol an "academic" honor society where middle of the road people can still get in because under a certain number you can just do double the BS community service to somehow make up for the gpa....

Put two and two together here my friends. It's a joke.
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Are other schools lax with the GPA requirement? National lists 3.5, our school is 3.6 to apply
 
Ho0v-man said:
Lol I experienced a little of that. It’s literally a popularity contest at my school. And if you win you get the prestigious honor of setting up labs for the school you pay tuition to at 7pm. Oh yeah, sounds awesome..
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Med school popularity 😂😂😂😂.
 
sylvanthus said:
I forgot about this society. Joined when I was able, kept it up for a bit, never once got an email, newsletter, or any communication from them ever save for renewal statements. I have zero idea what they do. Join up for residency applications, then dump em.
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This sounds like majority of honor societies 🤣
 
cbc86 said:
SSP is utterly worthless.
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I disagree... you never know when it will come in handy.

What if the program director of a competitive ex-aoa/acgme program director happened to be an SSP member as well? A subculture of 20% of all DOs can include lots of people. Many of whom are likely to do better than average in the DO career lifespan. Sometimes the value of membership may not be instantly apparent; there is no need to put down the value of the society.

The academic DO honor society is called Psi Sigma Alpha. It accepts strictly the top 10% of each class. Many chapters are now inactive, however.
 
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Solodyn said:
I disagree... you never know when it will come in handy.

What if the program director of a competitive ex-aoa/acgme program director happened to be an SSP member as well? A subculture of 20% of all DOs can include lots of people. Many of whom are likely to do better than average in the DO career lifespan. Sometimes the value of membership maybe be instantly apparent; there is no need to put down the value of the society.

The academic DO honor society is called Psi Sigma Alpha. It accepts strictly the top 10% of each class. Many chapters are now inactive, however.
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I doubt anyone gives a **** in the real world. I was in those undergrad honor societies and if I saw a CV that included it, it would at best be "hey, I was in that too. Good times!" but never a reason to pick someone
 
lol, of course, that wouldn't be the reason to pick someone. But it would come in handy in establishing the rapport with the right people sometimes. I am not saying SSP membership is all you need. But to say "SSP is utterly worthless" is an unfair statement.

Personally, as I review the CVs from the residency application, SSP membership does lead me to a second look.
 
Solodyn said:
lol, of course, that wouldn't be the reason to pick someone. But it would come in handy in establishing the rapport with the right people sometimes. I am not saying SSP membership is all you need. But to say "SSP is utterly worthless" is an unfair statement.

Personally, as I review the CVs from the residency application, SSP membership does lead me to a second look.
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Are you a PD at a former AOA program?
 
WhereMyLiberalsAt said:
100% NOT worthless!

Great deal of value in helping you decide on which classmates to avoid. Sigma Sigma Phi is the Great Value brand of hotdogs in the deli section... Ain’t nothing to be proud of.
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Don't trash the Great Value dogs... Those used to keep me alive
 
I was SSP because it was $60 and I thought meh why not. Lol. Forgot to put it on my residency application. Still matched where I wanted. No one asked me about honor stuff. SSP offered me not one thing.
 
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