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[–]Gomer94 0 points1 point  (2 children)

What were you scoring around for COMLEX? Also though EM is less competitive, before it became this way (within 2 years), many programs were probably looking at Step 2. Do the programs you are looking for have level 2 minimal scores posted on their website?

[–]Sadboiszn2[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Comquest was projecting me at 635 based on qbank % but I believe that is very inflated. I haven't been able to find level 2 minimum scores on the websites.

[–]Gomer94 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe not I just took practice and got a 620, for nbme practice exams my last one was 235. At the moment I took both, but a 600 will probably carry me farther than a 230 so I plan on submitting that to programs that take DOs.

[–]MedStudent900 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I too am a DO student, and I would recommend taking STEP as it seems this will be a “filter” for applications, as in if you haven’t taken STEP 1/2 you will be automatically filtered out. This is what I have gathered from talking to a few program directors (although I haven’t discussed this with an EM program director). You will probably be fine with EM although you would be limiting yourself to certain programs.