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Is it possible to network your way into a NS residency via strong family connections?
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If you don’t know their lors/step scores/audition performance.....maybe just keep your eyes forward and stay out of second guessing their successCurious as to how big of a role do connections/network matter in terms of obtaining an osteopathic neurosurgery residency (prior to ACGME/AOA merger) vs. standardized test taking skills vs. brilliance/hard work?
Curious as the vast majority of my smartest former college classmates matched into IM, EM, anesthesiology, etc. and my weakest college classmate matched neurosurgery. It's definitely possible that he blossomed in DO school, as opposed to college and HS.
My classmate was in the inaugural class of a DO school's branch campus, parents are both FMG MD neurologists (and the rest of his extended family are in medicine as well) that own multiple private practices (albeit in a different state than the residency), and paid for tons of prep for him btwn 1st and 2nd year & after 2nd year.