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US MD student on my way to take Step 2 in two weeks now. It seems like the average over the past few years is 245 or around 45th percentile of all Step 2 takers. I've been scoring in that range. My main concern is having a score so low that programs will automatically filter me out. Not shooting for Hopkins/Harvard or anything like that, but I still want to be competitive enough to get a comfortable amount of interviews.
I've primed up a somewhat solid app for pathology and now it all comes down to Step 2 (and my performance on 4th year path electives/aways, of course) with solid amounts of first author pubs, posters, and abstracts from a research year. Nearly half Honors on 3rd year (OBGYN, Neuro, Surg elective, FM), half HP (Peds, IM, Surg, psych). Pretty good MSPE comments. Middle tier medical school with a great path program. Bottom quartile of class due to preclinical performance, but otherwise no red flags or failures.
I've primed up a somewhat solid app for pathology and now it all comes down to Step 2 (and my performance on 4th year path electives/aways, of course) with solid amounts of first author pubs, posters, and abstracts from a research year. Nearly half Honors on 3rd year (OBGYN, Neuro, Surg elective, FM), half HP (Peds, IM, Surg, psych). Pretty good MSPE comments. Middle tier medical school with a great path program. Bottom quartile of class due to preclinical performance, but otherwise no red flags or failures.
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