Weight of clerkship grades

It's really hard to give a general recommendation. I would say it would be more helpful if someone with similar scores/grades who applied this year responded with how many applications they submitted and interviews they were offered.

If you're around average board score (245) and don't have many Honors grades I would think you will want to rotate at community and state programs. Don't waste a rotation on a reach program. But that is just a generality, I will defer to anyone who might have gone through the process with those numbers this past year.

Would anyone care to throw some advice my way? My step 1 is in low 240s and I got Jr. AOA, but I only got 2 honors (surgery and OB) with 2 high passes and 2 passes. Are the 2 passes and few honors gonna kill me? Does the honors in surgery make up for it? I plan on apply to 100+ programs and just want to match somewhere. Thanks for any input

I'm also curious to hear the opinion of those who recently matched and current residents on this topic. A lot of schools, mine included, don't even do H/HP/P. For those that don't mind sharing, would love to hear some clerkship/shelf scores and if this was ever brought up on the interview trail.

It won't be brought up in your interview, but it is what gets you your interview invites

Grades are brought up sometimes.

At brown for example, the chair goes over your transcript in front of you and assigns "points" to you depending on which courses you received honors, your step scores, AOA, whether you were a college athlete, etc...

Getting all honors shows the committee that you work hard and people like you. I have heard this is very helpful for getting interviews.