Ways to rank residency programs

[FindingVeritas]

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Hey all, looking for good methods (or resources) of ranking residency programs (anesthesia, specifically) by competitiveness. I realize you can look at how the program did fill-wise on nrmp but I was looking at alternative ways to tell as well. I've done a few searches in this forum and mostly found location specific program rankings but anyone have an idea of the least competitive anesthesia programs?

Do you think that a large % of IMG/DO in an anesthesia program is a good way to indicate that it may be less competitive?

Currently an M3 interested in anesthesia (230-240) step 1 and a mix of high pass/honors for M3 at a top 30 allopathic school. However I've got a red flag in that I took a year off. I did productive research in that year but this wasn't an authorized year off (as in, I took the year off cause I had a family emergency + burn out because of it then picked up research when I finished dealing with the family situation). This plus the fact that I'm a late switch to anesthesia (basically all EC's are medicine and research in medicine as well) and the fact that I am trying to couples match tells me I need to shoot for the low competitiveness programs with maybe a few mid-tier reaches mixed in.

Thanks for your help!

 

[BLADEMDA]

You are a solid mid tier candidate. So, 1/2 your applications can be upper tier and 1/2 mid tier. No lower tier for you.