Another Anesthesia Post - Signal advice
Applying anesthesia this cycle and trying to figure out my last few silver signals.
US MD at a T20, Step 2 255–259. Research-heavy app with a dedicated research year, 8 publications (multiple first author), 7 more manuscripts submitted, and 15 posters. I have 4 strong anesthesia LORs (PD, away rotation attending, big name from research year institution, and home anesthesia attending). Also did two aways at top-tier programs.
Geo preferences: Pacific, Middle Atlantic, New England
Gold:
Penn
Stanford
Hopkins
UCSF
Sinai West
Silver so far:
NYU
Brown
Columbia
BIDMC
MGH (waste of a silver?)
Considering for the remaining silvers:
UTSW
UPMC
Yale
USC
UW
Mount Sinai
Stony Brook
Hofstra
Rutgers
Cooper
Westchester
Mainly wondering if this is too top heavy for my stats and how many of the remaining silvers I should use on safer programs vs continuing to shoot higher.
Posted Aug 12, 2026, 8:15 PM UTC