I know the importance of SLOE's has been discussed ad nauseum, and that's not my question. But rather if they are broken down by top 10%, top third, middle third, etc., by definition an average student doing a couple of EM rotations is going to end up in the middle third of the rankings. With all the discussion on these forums about how important it is for people to be top of the pack all the time, does that just mean people in the middle have a significantly more difficult experience in matching? Taking it a step further, do the people in the bottom third just not match? I would think that's not the case considering the match rate for EM is greater than 90%. What am I missing here?