I've seen on several threads here that its important to figure out things like how many rotators a program has per year, whether or not they interview all rotators, how many rotators end up matching at their program, etc when looking at where to do your away sub-i's. How exactly does one figure this out? Is this something that you can call and ask about or do you have to post around on the internet and find current residents that might have the inside info? I've also seen people say "don't bother applying to places you aren't competitive at" or something along those lines. Again, aside from knowing that I'm not competitive at HSS and other uber-competitive places how do assess my competitiveness at other less prestigious programs given that they don't publish the data about avg Step scores, AOA status, grades of their residents?
