Where are my interviews? Advice needed

[FellowPaisan]

I am dual applying for a very competitive field and internal medicine as a back-up. I am well prepared to not receive many interviews for the former but I thought I would be busy with medicine interviews. I am just starting my second away for the competitive field and I have only received a whopping 2 interviews for medicine despite I think decent stats - step 1 243, good research. The one thing that might be holding me back especially for the competitive field is my grades this year because of a very different third year curriculum then most are not great (too many passes than I would like to admit). I still thought with applying to a good spectrum of medicine programs I would be receiving a good amount but here I am scratching my head and unsure where to go. I got different letters for medicine and wrote different statements. I don't have any red flags and my letter writers I hand-picked and wouldn't be people to write bad stuff about you. I don't know if I should just be patient because I don't get it. I see my friends getting interviews.

I am an AMG. I chose to withhold step 2 because I dropped a bit.

Super stressed right now.

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[NotAProgDirector]

No one can tell you for certain why you don't have many interviews. It's possible that it's your clinical grades. Not reporting S2 is possible, but probably not a deal breaker with your solid S1 score. It's also quite possible that the IM programs can figure out you're dual applying -- if your research is in this competitive specialty and you have 4th year rotations (and away rotations at that), then they may not interview you for that reason.