Competitiveness for Rads or Gas

🥼 Residency

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

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