How many interviews do you have at this point?

Applied to 40
Invited to 10 (cancelled one due to conflict)
Rejected from 15
No word yet from the rest


Steps I,II: 240s,250s
not AOA
Mostly honors in MS3, honors on Ortho home and aways
Some research experience, no pubs
Top 50 school

Updating for completeness.

Applied: 50
Invites: 18
Rejections: ~25
Wait List: 1
Waiting on ~5-6

Step I/II: 240s/260s
AOA
All Honors MS3 and 4
Research: Good number of pubs/abstracts/presentation, none ortho. Handful of ongoing ortho projects.
Top 50 school

Applied: ~50
Invites: 19

Step I: ~250
Mostly Honors
Research: a few pubs, one ortho
Top 10 school

Any sense for how competitive ortho is going to be this year? For people with interviews, have you heard if there are more applicants than last year? I would be interested in the trajectory ortho is on from the perspective of current applicants.

Thanks.

I'm not sure how many more applicants there are this year but my home institution received around 800 applications which is up from last year by %15 or so. Looking at past data the Step 1 average continues to increase as well. So "yes" it is getting more competitive and it is more difficult to separate yourself from the average. I posit that rotations will become more important in the future and institutions will be inviting fewer non-rotators and rotations applications will be getting screened more extensively. Just my .02.

Applied: upper 50s
Invites: lower 30s

Step I: upper 250s
Step II: lower 250s (not released)
All Honors year 2-4
AOA
Research: one pub, 2 pres
Top 50 state school