2024 Programs review

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Whats with Stanford and two straight underwhelming match classes?

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What’s wrong with Vera Ong? 50+ pubs and great board scores. School name isn’t everything you know

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40+ review articles (lol) and who doesnt have great board scores - guess that's what it takes to get into nsgy now

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Guys stop, Stanford wanted diversity this year! Wisconsin, University of Hawaii, and a home plastics applicant!

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Sounds like someone is butthurt and jealous -- hope the SOAP went well

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Guys, both myself and many other attendings on this site have been telling you for a while now, med school name is largely irrelevant, and publications are a lousy way of assessing how promising a potential neurosurgery resident might be. Those of us who are reviewing applications simply do not care much what medical school you come from, and having 50 pubs versus 5 doesn’t make a difference. We are looking for intelligent, socially normal, and clinically competent individuals. A Harvard med student with 500 publications who hasn’t seen the light of day in 5 years because they’ve been buried in a lab does not meet this criteria (although a Harvard grad with good pubs who is otherwise well rounded obviously does).Stop obsessing over irrelevant details, and instead just focus on doing as well as possible in ur courses, as well as possible in ur steps, get a few meaningful research experiences, and be helpful and normal on ur Sub-Is and interviews. That will get you in somewhere, I promise. Do NOT expect ur school name to mean anything to us, it will not.

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This was the first year we actually started actively moving away from applicants from Ivy League Schools. No grades or class rankings anymore, obviously significantly less rigorous, and now ~50% of the curriculum has been made to address healthcare inequality.

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cant wait until 100% of the curriculum is about healthcare inequality rather than, u know, healthcare.

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Neurosurgery will be the most progressive specialty soon. I am so excited for it Shout out to all the programs taking amazing female applicants who are much more resilient than traditional male applicants.

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How many legacy applicants matched this year? What programs are known for it?

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The Levy kid matched at NYU - his dad definitely had pull in the background. Its a small field though, what do you expect?