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What is the purpose of this project?
To help provide some guideline to future (and current) EM Residency applicants early in the Interview Season. After application submission, applicants are often uncertain about how many interviews they should be receiving. The uncertainty is probably made worse when they see a small minority receiving large amounts of interviews. The ultimate goal is to allow applicants to see where similar applicants place at similar time and give context to their current position and trajectory. Similar to Charting the Outcome, except for Interviews.
Why should you help?
If at any time this interview season, you wish you knew where you stood with your peers, this will help others like you in the future.
Or if you are just tired of panic posts from other neurotic applicants and could just post an link/graph.
Or if you just like looking at data, statistics, and making sense of it.
How is this project done?
We will be using a public google spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kK8NYX6rDOjgvWMOQO9xBVKTCs_ackeYN5BuZ-uBDp8/edit?usp=sharing
A few notes. This is intended to be anonymous so people are more willing to contribute. The identifier is for YOUR purpose, to keep track of which row contains your data, so put something that you can associate with yourself (like anonymous + unique ID). There is no school identifying data -- simply put in the dates of interviews as you received them. This is open to anyone, not just SDN posters, if you want to help out and put in your non-identifiable data.
What sort of data will be collected?
Right now, the stratifying criteria will be Step 1 Score and US Senior vs Independent. There are obviously other components of application, but in the interest of preventing scope creep, they can be certainly be considered in the future.
How will the data be presented?
There will be a few different presentation. But, an example mockup is the following:
Interview fraction is (number of interviews received ) / (number of application submitted). Someone received 30 interviews of 30 applications is not equivilant to someone receiving 30 interviews of 100. This allows me to compare and aggregate the interviews received.
How do I know you're not making everything up?
You don't. It's the internet, and the data is based on a public spreadsheet. In the interest of transparency, I will provide the spreadsheet of my analyses on request for people interested in doing data crunching, but obviously neither I nor anyone can control what people put in the spreadsheet, and this is all on honor system. Having additional constraints will just result in less participation.
Interpretation of Data:
<Various graphs will be here>
And to get the following out of the way:
Being above your interview curve does not mean you will match. Being below your interview curve does not mean you will not match. However if you are very far below your curve, it is a definite red flag to review your applications with someone. In the end, nothing beats an experienced adviser who can look over your list and select your schools.
To help provide some guideline to future (and current) EM Residency applicants early in the Interview Season. After application submission, applicants are often uncertain about how many interviews they should be receiving. The uncertainty is probably made worse when they see a small minority receiving large amounts of interviews. The ultimate goal is to allow applicants to see where similar applicants place at similar time and give context to their current position and trajectory. Similar to Charting the Outcome, except for Interviews.
Why should you help?
If at any time this interview season, you wish you knew where you stood with your peers, this will help others like you in the future.
Or if you are just tired of panic posts from other neurotic applicants and could just post an link/graph.
Or if you just like looking at data, statistics, and making sense of it.
How is this project done?
We will be using a public google spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kK8NYX6rDOjgvWMOQO9xBVKTCs_ackeYN5BuZ-uBDp8/edit?usp=sharing
A few notes. This is intended to be anonymous so people are more willing to contribute. The identifier is for YOUR purpose, to keep track of which row contains your data, so put something that you can associate with yourself (like anonymous + unique ID). There is no school identifying data -- simply put in the dates of interviews as you received them. This is open to anyone, not just SDN posters, if you want to help out and put in your non-identifiable data.
What sort of data will be collected?
Right now, the stratifying criteria will be Step 1 Score and US Senior vs Independent. There are obviously other components of application, but in the interest of preventing scope creep, they can be certainly be considered in the future.
How will the data be presented?
There will be a few different presentation. But, an example mockup is the following:
Interview fraction is (number of interviews received ) / (number of application submitted). Someone received 30 interviews of 30 applications is not equivilant to someone receiving 30 interviews of 100. This allows me to compare and aggregate the interviews received.
How do I know you're not making everything up?
You don't. It's the internet, and the data is based on a public spreadsheet. In the interest of transparency, I will provide the spreadsheet of my analyses on request for people interested in doing data crunching, but obviously neither I nor anyone can control what people put in the spreadsheet, and this is all on honor system. Having additional constraints will just result in less participation.
Interpretation of Data:
<Various graphs will be here>
And to get the following out of the way:
Being above your interview curve does not mean you will match. Being below your interview curve does not mean you will not match. However if you are very far below your curve, it is a definite red flag to review your applications with someone. In the end, nothing beats an experienced adviser who can look over your list and select your schools.
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