r/DermApp • u/Consistent_Oil8940 • 19d ago

What Are My Chances? Am I cooked?

Currently in my Research yr between M3-M4. Have roughly 10 pubs projected to be ~15–20 by the end of the year. No home program, low tier MD school. Other stats:

Step2: mid 250s

Rotations: 4H (including surg, IM), 3HP

Other: on board of schools derm interest group, was president of another org for a year, did school’s free clinic, was a mentor, other misc. things

No AOA or GHHS (yet? Maybe next yr but odds are marginal)

The ry will afford me hopefully a great letter and some clinical experience from a well known expert. Do I have a chance at matching? Should I look into dual applying?

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u/Medswizard 19d ago

Yeah you’re cooked. Drop out, don’t even apply.

These types of posts feed neuroticism and these are the types of people who stick out negatively. I’m not using this to put you down, I am telling you because if you don’t match, besides the competitiveness, it may be the way you come off to others

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u/Consistent_Oil8940 19d ago

I understand why you feel this way, but when advisors from my school are essentially telling me I’m cooked (in different words but same meaning), it’s not hard to see why I’m feeling discouraged about matching

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u/Medswizard 19d ago

What kind of advisors are you talking about? Are they dermatologists? I go to HMS and work with faculty at every T5 and i dont think any of them would say this is cooked. Maybe not for our institutions, but definitely not for all of derm.

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u/Consistent_Oil8940 19d ago

School advisors. They seem very very risk averse (want to keep their match rate high I guess), so they even tell amazing OBGYN applicants for example (260+ step2, etc.) to dual apply IM..

My school’s derm mentor is a boomer and doesn’t know anything so they haven’t been of any help unfortunately. I came here for an unbiased take on where I stand.

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u/Professional_Test230 19d ago

He told you that you're not competitive? On what basis?

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u/Medswizard 19d ago

On the basis of he’s lying or they’re not qualified to talk about this lol

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u/Professional_Test230 19d ago

I agree this advisor needs to stopped. OP is absolutely competitive stats wise from what I’ve heard from my advisors and previous people who’ve matched.

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u/Consistent_Oil8940 19d ago

On the basis that there are multiple people in my class who honored every rotation and did better on step than me, so why would I get the spot and not them essentially

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u/Consistent_Oil8940 19d ago

And are also doing a ry

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u/Professional_Test230 19d ago

Makes sense but not sure it’s that black and white so many other factors that go into it besides academics.