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its interesting that people consider a 210 usmle bad when >50% of DOs who take usmle score less than a 230.
It depends more on perspective from what type of student you are. An IMG may consider a 220 a poor score for general surgery, and rightly so when you look at the IMG match profile for general surgery. They need a much higher score than their MD counterparts. A US MD 220 step 1 is around a 90% match rate for general surgery while its like a 30% match rate for the same score as an IMG.
Even for us DOs, a 220 usmle step 1 will open a good amount of doors that were otherwise closed. It won't help for top specialties like derm, but for the non super competitive ones, it definitely helps.