Welcome, my name is Devine. This is episode 479 of the Devine Intervention

Podcast. To this podcast I'm going to be discussing a topic called the

excellent residency applicant.

The excellent residency applicant.

Essentially I just wanna put together

a bunch of things that I feel like me for a person that's a good applicant for residency programs and I'm gonna try to remove all the fluff and just get right to

it so let's just get it. So and this is in no particular order. But the very first thing

I will say that makes for an excellent residency applicant is a score for your situation.

I'm going to see that again, a score for your situation.

The thing is people always ask, should I get in the 240s, should I get in the 240s should I get in the 250s should I get in the 260s

But honestly that's not the right question to ask the right question to ask is this. Okay, given X Y, Z about my application, is this score going to be

enough or was the score that will be needed given all these things I have going for me or all these things I have going against me.

There are some people that are applying to the same discipline.

Let's say, oh, they all apply to ortho.

There are some people that can apply to ortho and have a very stellar

application cycle with the scoring the 240s. But there's some rule that also applying to ortho

that will have a very crappy application cycle, even if they have those same 240s.

So it kind of varies by person. Some people need in the 250s, 260s to make a good application for the same discipline.

And some people just need a score in the 240s to make a good application for the same discipline because they just have other

components of the application that work to their advantage. And the thing is

many people make these score things based on stuff they read online right

they'll say oh my program screens out if you don't get on the over 250 my program

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