Competitiveness for Rads or Gas
M4 deciding between rads vs gas. Trying to gauge competitiveness for each.
5/6 honors (HP IM), T30 med school, 273 Step 2.
Non-trad prior military before school with strong leadership experience. Decent volunteering, lead free clinic for a year. Miminal research during med school which is probably weakest part of my app.
Have 1 non-rads/gas abstract/poster, possibly one rads project before ERAS that might result in pub. 2 research experiences from undergrad which resulted in 1 second author pub.
Will have done an AI in each before ERAS, should have no issue getting LORs.
For those that didn’t stop reading after seeing my Step score, I know I’ll match fine just trying to figure how competitive I am for top programs.
How should I distribute signals? Wise to use half on T30s? Don’t want too top heavy a program list, but also worried about yield protection with mid/low tier programs.
Posted May 28, 2026, 5:13 PM UTC