<p>Interesting article regarding predictor of success in ENT residency at WUSTL (don’t know how generalizable this is). What’s better at predicting success than step 1 scores, school rank, class rank, AOA, and clinical grades? </p>
<p>This reminds me of a story I read several years ago.</p>
<p>Half a century ago, an ambitious female student really wanted to climb up the social ladder when she grew up. Since the males dominated the higher positions back then, she thought it might help if she mimics what these high achievers may do. She chose to major in theoretical physics which was a very male dominated field in the cold war years. When she grew up, she found that many players up there in the society still had one thing she did not have: She did not participate in a team sport (e.g., foot ball or basket ball) when she grew up. She lacked some skills that could only be picked up in the team sport.</p>
<p>I heard that, at least in the past, to be good at sport is a very valuable asset when a student competes for some prestigious scholarship (rhode Scholar or UNC’s Morehead scholars?), or even to get into a certain Ivy school whose name starts with P. They may be right in selecting the high achievers after all.</p>
<p>My S was a Morehead Scholar. Actually it’s not really necessary to be an athlete per se; one of the four core cornerstone qualities that they look for is “physical vigor” which means you’re not a couch potato or someone who only studied and played video games all the time.</p>
<p>You can be a runner, cyclist, hiker or an athlete - my S rowed crew for four years in HS…it’s really just about looking for very well rounded kids who excel in multiple areas…you don’t have to be a varsity athlete by any means.</p>
<p>well that metric was done by a self-assessment, so while I imagine most swimmers wouldn’t consider their sport a team sport, they might have said “I was on a swim team therefore I did a team sport”</p>
<p>Our kids did swim team. The relays especially would be a team thing, so while it does not require the cooperation of basketball or soccer, it is still a team sport of sorts.</p>