C/o 2024 students, did you/any of your classmates opt to take Step 1 before it becomes P/F?
Obviously, this would've meant studying way in advance (for those in 2-year preclinicals) or a little ahead (for those in 1/1.5 year preclinicals). Just curious how many people who are supposed to take it P/F opted to take it before the change just to have the score (since our residency match/ERAS cycle is gonna be fucked with PDs' arbitrary decisions of whether or not to take the step 1 score into account if it's there)
Posted Dec 11, 2021, 10:47 PM UTC
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My class talked about it pretty extensively and came to the conclusions that it’s not worth it. The thoughts were, even if you do well, schools probably will blind against scores because so many people will be P/F for that Match year. If you passed but did poorly 215, I would much rather have a P and program directors not know how well or poorly I did.
Yeah, I think this is pretty much the general consensus among M2s from what I've read online. Just wondering if there are a significant amount of outliers (especially those with a history of excellent scores on prior standardized tests like the MCAT, SAT/ACT, AP tests, etc.) who are opting to take it scored.
In my class I would say about 10% have opted for a score.