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Didn't match
#31
Any advice for people with bad Step1 scores but solid step 2 scores who didn’t match? Is there still hope that a research year or strong prelim year performance will help mitigate the score?
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#32
How many pubs did you have?
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#33
Pubs mean very little in this process. Step 1 is the most important criteria as applications are typically sorted by Step 1 scores. After that school name helps. Don't get caught up in publishing, there are many outstanding researchers who don't match every year, but very few Step 1 all stars who don't.
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#34
(04-04-2018, 04:39 PM)Guest Wrote: Sorry you didn't match OP. Seems like you "fell through the cracks" and either you didn't have a home program to give you a spot or your home program didn't like u enough. Looking through the match list you can probably spot applicants year after year who matched at their home programs but would have probably have also "slipped through the cracks" if not for the backup they had. This process is rough, many people match below their top 3 /5 choices, there's a lot of politics (attending's son/daughter getting the spot, a significant other of current resident getting a spot). Just a lot of stuff you can't control.

Try to find out what went wrong and reapply. It's not over yet.

There shouldnt be nepotism is neurosurgery. This isn't a lemonade stand. 
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#35
it is almost certainly your personality. I matched at great program with a 250 step 1, no home program or AOA, 12-13 in the research/abstracts/blah blah category, but great LORs. you had a better app on paper. It was either your interview or your letters were just ok.
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#36
(04-04-2018, 06:46 PM)jjm0709 Wrote: it is almost certainly your personality. I matched at great program with a 250 step 1, no home program or AOA, 12-13 in the research/abstracts/blah blah category, but great LORs. you had a better app on paper. It was either your interview or your letters were just ok.

agreed
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#37
(04-04-2018, 06:36 PM)Guest Wrote:
(04-04-2018, 04:39 PM)Guest Wrote: There shouldnt be nepotism is neurosurgery. This isn't a lemonade stand. 

Yet there is plenty of it. Like going to dad's program when you have zero papers published.
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#38
Nepotism is real. And know that connections are critical in this process. Deals are made left and right...
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#39
(04-04-2018, 08:00 PM)Guest Wrote: Nepotism is real. And know that connections are critical in this process. Deals are made left and right...

Resident matched at Hopkins last year based on nepotism and this year at Brigham there's one
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#40
(04-04-2018, 10:24 PM)Guest Wrote:
(04-04-2018, 08:00 PM)Guest Wrote: Nepotism is real. And know that connections are critical in this process. Deals are made left and right...

Resident matched at Hopkins last year based on nepotism and this year at Brigham there's one

Who at Hopkins and who at Brigham?
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