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--Board Scores: 260
--AOA and class rank: AOA
--Reputation of medical school: Not top 10
--Research: few ophtho posters/presentations graduating with "honors in research"
--Honors in clerkships: Med, Surg, Peds...
--# and where you did away rotations: No Aways
--# of programs you applied to: 40
--Where invited for interviews: 30 invites (Madison, Iowa, Michigan, Cleveland Clinic, Case, Wash U...)
--Where matched: UW Madison
I've been waiting a long time to post this!
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--Board Scores: 259 Step 1, Step 2 not taken yet
--AOA and class rank: guessing top 1/3-1/4 based on Dean's letter. AOA unknown
--Reputation of medical school: top 10
--Research: HHMI year-long research fellowship in ophtho basic science with ARVO abstract but no pubs yet. 1st author Radiology paper earlier in school.
--Honors in clerkships: Surgery, Medicine, OB/GYN, Ophtho sub-i
--# and where you did away rotations: none
--# of programs you applied to: 37
--Where invited for interviews: 32
--Where matched: MEEI (#1 choice)
--Anything that helped your app: Really strong letter from a well known faculty person at my school (was mentioned at many interviews). Research interests and desire to go into academics (genuine). Being damn fine (hee hee hee...
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--Board Scores: Step 1 - 224
--AOA and class rank: not AOA
--Reputation of medical school: top 25
--Research: none in ophtho
--Honors in clerkships: surgery
--# and where you did away rotations: 1
--# of programs you applied to: >50
--Where invited for interviews: 8 (Storm, Loyola, DMEI, Texas A&M, UT Memphis, and others)
--Where matched: #1 choice !!!!
--Anything that helped your app: phone call from advisor to my #1 program was HUGE, 2 big-wig letters, international medical mission experience, the grace of God
**numbers aren't everything**
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--Board Scores: Step1-253
--AOA and class rank: not ranked, AOA unknown at the time of application
--Reputation of medical school: top 10
--Research: PhD in neuroscience, no ophtho-specific research
--Honors in clerkships: Honors in Med and Surg
--# and where you did away rotations:None
--# of programs you applied to:30
--Where invited for interviews:USC, UCLA, Stanford, Yale, George Wash, Bascom, Emory, UChicago, UIC, Indiana, Wilmer, BU, UMich, UMinn, Mayo, WashU, UMDNJ, Duke, UCinn, ClevelandClinic, Scheie, Baylor- Interviewed at UChicago, Wilmer, UMich, UMinn, Mayo, WashU, Duke, CClinic, Scheie, Baylor.
--Where matched: UMich
--Anything that helped your app: big-wig letter of recs, MD/PhD
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--Board Scores: 268/267/Pass (CS)
--AOA and class rank: not AOA, top quartile
--Reputation of medical school: (middle tier)
--Research: (some ophtho with no publications, 1 non-ophtho publication)
--Honors in clerkships: (most everything but medicine)
--# and where you did away rotations: ucla
--# of programs you applied to:42
--Where invited for interviews: 23: BU, UTSW, Cleveland Clinic, UIC, University of Michigan, University of Alabama, NYMC, Wash U , Duke, UC Irvine, JHU, NYU , Mount Sinai , UCLA, GWU, Drexel, Wills, Columbia, NYEEI, St. Vincents, Cornell, AECOM, LIJ
--Where matched: UIC
--Anything that helped your app: (not sure, extra degree- masters)
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--Board Scores: 260/260
--AOA and class rank: Senior AOA, unknown class rank
--Reputation of medical school: top 50 (large state school)
--Research: some ophtho with no publications ongoing since second year of med school
--Honors in clerkships: Honors in Medicine, Psych, Surgery, OB/GYN, Ambulatory, Ophtho. Letter/High Pass in Neuro, and all 4th year required clerkships and electives (so far).
--# and where you did away rotations: none
--# of programs you applied to: 21
--Where invited for interviews: 17 (went to 14)
--Where matched: #1 choice
--Anything that helped your app: unique personal statement (seriously) and ability to talk about things outside of medicine at my interviews. I haven't read the letters of rec I received, but they must have helped also.
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--Board Scores: Step I 258/99, Step II 252/99
--AOA and class rank: first in class, not AOA
--Reputation of medical school: foreign
--Research: two publications (one pathology, one ophtho) plus several
posters and presentations
--Honors in clerkships: all, 1 year US experience (mostly clinical)
--# and where you did away rotations: Cornell (medicine), Wilmer, Duke and
Baylor
--# of programs you applied to: 44
--Where invited for interviews: invited at 3 programs
--Where matched: Did not match
--Anything that may have helped your app: Great US letters, but they did not
help too much it seems
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