Where to signal?

[allseasons]

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Posted something like this a few months ago, wanted to update as I have final stats now.

Step 2: 265 and T20 school, I have 35 Abstracts/posters/presentations including 5 pubs, mostly in surgery. None in rad onc, though I do have a recent research experience I started.

I wanted to do rad onc last minute, got a high pass in the Sub I because i literally decided in the middle of the sub I wanted to do it lol, I initially took it more for a break since it was easy and unrelated to the field I was interested in. My LoRs are pretty good, and per my PD the high pass shouldn't be much of an issue given how I realized I wanted to do rad onc. idk if that's true though. All my non-rad onc evals are honors and outstanding. However, they have nothing to do with rad onc lmao. This is probably the last year the field will be noncompetitive for a while, but idk exactly how noncompetitive it will be.

Should I even bother signaling top 10s?

 

[drowsy12]

You’re very competitive.

Also there’s no down side to signaling it sounds like. Why wouldn’t you

 

[metallica81788]

You miss 100% of the shots you don't take

 

[allseasons]

You’re very competitive.

Also there’s no down side to signaling it sounds like. Why wouldn’t you

Just cause I don’t want to reach too high where I can’t match and then not get the second tier that I could have gotten with signaling, if that makes sense. Like if I signal 4-7 rank (not that this is how I’m signaling but I’m saying for example) but I’m below their level and have no shot even with signaling, and thus I don’t match 8-11 as well where I might have been able to match with signaling.

 

[allseasons]

You’re very competitive.

Also there’s no down side to signaling it sounds like. Why wouldn’t you

Any thoughts on the high pass I got? (got a high pass in the Sub I because i literally decided in the middle of the sub I wanted to do it lol, I initially took it more for a break since it was easy and unrelated to the field I was interested in)

 

[StealthTech]

Dude it's 2025, you'll match at Harvard with a pulse and no felonies.

 

[allseasons]

Dude it's 2025, you'll match at Harvard with a pulse and no felonies.

It’s not quite that noncompetitive at this point 😂. I’m targeting Penn through UCSD.

 

[yesmaster]

Signal to the places you most want to go to

 

[RickyScott]

Any thoughts on the high pass I got? (got a high pass in the Sub I because i literally decided in the middle of the sub I wanted to do it lol, I initially took it more for a break since it was easy and unrelated to the field I was interested in)

I have been out of the game but what kind of an b&$ch program director gives a high pass in an elective rotation assuming you show up and seem mildly interested, especially if you told them you wanted to go into this specialty. Radonc is not a desirable specialty and hard to see how any progr can be picky.

 

[yesmaster]

A cue to hard pass on your home program

 

[allseasons]

I have been out of the game but what kind of an b&$ch program director gives a high pass in an elective rotation assuming you show up and seem mildly interested, especially if you told them you wanted to go into this specialty. Radonc is not a desirable specialty and hard to see how any progr can be picky.

It was an unfortunate set of circumstances that led to someone other than the typical evaluator assigning the grade, which would otherwise have been honors. But the PD and chair wrote the rec letter. They both assumed I had been given honors and were surprised to find out that wasn’t the case.

 

[allseasons]

A cue to hard pass on your home program

I actually really like my home program 😂
This was just… a really unfortunate set of circumstances