I have a question for the attendings on the forum...
Looking at the sticky by neutropeniaboy it seems like you really need to get honors on most of your 3rd year clinical rotations to be an above average applicant. How do PDs take into account variations in the subjectivity of grading that occurs at every school. Some schools offer honors to 5% of the class where others to 30+%, some offer honors to those who score above X% on the shelf exam while others offer it to those who score 20 points lower. Since third year grades seem to be quite important I was just wondering how they are used to compare applicants from different schools.
Looking at the sticky by neutropeniaboy it seems like you really need to get honors on most of your 3rd year clinical rotations to be an above average applicant. How do PDs take into account variations in the subjectivity of grading that occurs at every school. Some schools offer honors to 5% of the class where others to 30+%, some offer honors to those who score above X% on the shelf exam while others offer it to those who score 20 points lower. Since third year grades seem to be quite important I was just wondering how they are used to compare applicants from different schools.
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