Why the rush with II CK scores?

[md11]

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Please help me out here--I feel like I'm missing something huge--

If a student's goal is to release a (hopefully strong) Step II score AFTER interview invitations are made (i.e. not really for the purpose of gaining more interview invitations) but BEFORE programs make their rankings, can't she/he take the exam as late as mid-to-late December 2010 (with the score released around third week of January) and still be ok?

All I want is for the score to play a role in my final ranking.

 

[Tiger10]

Please help me out here--I feel like I'm missing something huge--

If a student's goal is to release a (hopefully strong) Step II score AFTER interview invitations are made (i.e. not really for the purpose of gaining more interview invitations) but BEFORE programs make their rankings, can't she/he take the exam as late as mid-to-late December 2010 (with the score released around third week of January) and still be ok?

All I want is for the score to play a role in my final ranking.

Looks like a lot of the programs (EM) I'm interested in require Step 2. Maybe it depends on the specialty?

 

[rahulb]

early bird catches mad worms 😎

 

[md11]

If you are implying that the rankings process is so rigid that once your place is established, no new information will be able to affect it at all, please confirm.

 

[alwaysaangel]

Looks like a lot of the programs (EM) I'm interested in require Step 2. Maybe it depends on the specialty?

Bingo. A lot more programs are starting to require step 2 to be considered for interviews.

Especially heavily clinical specialties: FM, EM, IM, etc.

 

[RisingSun]

Some schools require an early step 2. We have to have ours taken (both CK and CS) by September.