Too late to apply?

[mitralwiz]

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This is my story. 4th yr student wanting to apply general surgery. Had a chance to scrub on some plastics cases last month during a Sub-I, not a plastics subi, and now would like to apply. My question is am I too late. Spoke to my PD and he does not have a SubI spot open for this next month so having a hard time finding a way to do a rotation. Have good general surgery letters, but obviously concerned about not having plastics letter. Any advice? Is it even possible or is it pretty certain I have to do general surgery at this point to get in? Stats below:

AOA
Step1: 250s
Honored all rotations
4 1st author publications in General surgery journals. Several 2nd and 3rd author papers. No papers in plastics journals.

 

[plastic7]

it's not so much your numbers that will be a problem, it will be convincing programs that you are committed based on only scrubbing in on a few cases. There's a reason why they want you to have a few plastic surgery rotations, and that is so that you are 100% sure it's what you want to do. Only having a few cases worth of experience will be a hard sell.

 

[mitralwiz]

So if I were to do 1-2 rotations in the next 2 months and get a letter from a plastics attedning you would say then there is a decent chance?