Step 1 Cut off - Need your info

Don't worry, banging_bones, I think that someone who's "tired of busting [her] butt off and can't wait until winter break" is going to go about as far in ortho as you could throw a big bear.

Amen to that!

Md007...I think your idea of starting this thread is veery reasonable and might help people out....definately none of us but maybe MS3's etc. However, the divergance of the thread into programs actively recruiting women with 210's is a little disturbing because they make the situation seem so trivial. There is much more involved than the boards but I am not for a system where you can just switch from wanting to go into family medicine one day with a 210 and then the next switch to Ortho and get more inteviews than guys who have wanted it since day one and then proceed to rub it in their faces by saying programs are simply looking for women as "bigbear" seems to have heard.

hmm... that wasn't my intention in replying to rub anything in anyone's face. i was merely stating that i did start out with a 218 and an idea of going into primary care (peds, actually, and not family) or ER and when i found surgery, and more specifically, ortho and changed my mind, i busted my ass to get where i wanted to get. i was only trying to show it was possible to go the ortho route without having a 230. that's all.

i'm not trying to trivialize anything here, nor rub it into anyone's face. i'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you've strongly misread my post, rather than that you're insinuating my change of career goals and what i did to attain the new (ortho) goals are in any way trivializing all of our struggles with this application.

just because i wasn't ortho from day one doesn't mean i'm any less deserving of a spot in the field, and in no way am i saying my progress in this application cycle is just because i'm a woman. i worked my ass off for the last year trying to get where i am right now. i can't speak for the other woman poster, but in no way am i some flighty girly girl playing around here. i'm also staring down thousands of dollars of debt for 67 applications and over 40 rejections at this point. we're in this together.

I am a woman, but that was the least of what made my application unique among the sub-mean crowd. I am sure there are programs out there that are trying to interview more women (though this does not at all mean they have any plans to match them). However, I feel confident that there are plenty of women out there who rocked the boards and did research (two from my school who matched high on their rank list last year) that they could pick instead of seeking out low scorers. I highly discourage anyone who isn't truly set on ortho to apply just because they think they have a chance. That said, if there is nothing more you want in life than to be in ortho, but you screwed up on step 1, this thread can be helpful to show where your application will at least get considered.

and i also forgot to add:

maybe it didn't come across that way in the first place, but my point was that in no way should someone rely on the i'm a woman, i'm a minority, etc etc to get into ortho. my point was that if you are already behind the 8ball with a low step one, you can overcome it by working HARD and proving your interest and capabilities. female, male, black, white, yellow, whatever.

All great points, at least most of them! We are, on some level, certainly all in this together, so let us now please get back on track. Please start another thread if you feel you have to prove some other point. Many of you have said this info can be useful to other applicants, but dportugal is the only one to have contributed.

If you or someone you know scored less than the number mentioned and was offered an interview this year at the program listed, please copy, paste, and update the list. Add programs as necessary in alphabetical order by state, indicate if rotated.

UCLA - 230
UC Davis - 205 (rotated)
Loma Linda -205
San Francisco/St. Mary's program - 230
Stanford-205
Yale-205
University of Florida - Jacksonville - 230, 205 (rotated)
University of Illinois - 228
Southern Illinois University - 228
University of Kansas - 228
UMKC- 230
University of New Mexico - 230
University of Oklahoma - 230
Oregon Health Sciences - 230
Brown - 228
West Virginia - 228