Percentage of applicants who match in their top 5 programs in EM

[pandahunter]

Anyone know roughly how often an EM applicant matches into their top 5? How much would this % deviate if their top 5 is made up of really competitive programs?

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[witzelsucht]

63% including IMGs, 70.5% for just US grads. 36% for highly competitive programs.

 

[pandahunter]

63% including IMGs, 70.5% for just US grads. 36% for highly competitive programs.

can i get a link to the source article?

 

[pandahunter]

Aww. There's no report. But in reality I'd guess nearly 90% get their top 5.

ah. that sounds too good to be true. I guess i'll try to find something else to neuroticize about

 

[gutonc]

Anyone know roughly how often an EM applicant matches into their top 5? How much would this % deviate if their top 5 is made up of really competitive programs?

Those data don't exist. The closest thing you can get to that is from last year's Charting Outcomes where for EM, US grads with 5 ranks have a roughly 80% chance of matching (that # is 65% for independent applicants). This isn't the same thing as the question you asked of course, but it does get you in the ballpark.

 

[hoot504]

Those data don't exist. The closest thing you can get to that is from last year's Charting Outcomes where for EM, US grads with 5 ranks have a roughly 80% chance of matching (that # is 65% for independent applicants). This isn't the same thing as the question you asked of course, but it does get you in the ballpark.

Actually the data does exist, sort of. See this thread http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/how-far-down-rank-list.1043514/

It isn't EM specific, but for all comers in the 2013 match, a US MD chance of matching into top 4 was 85.5%.

Here's the original document, page 39. http://b83c73bcf0e7ca356c80-e8560f4...ontent/uploads/2013/08/resultsanddata2013.pdf

 

[filhodeinferno]

Anyone know roughly how often an EM applicant matches into their top 5? How much would this % deviate if their top 5 is made up of really competitive programs?

On SDN it's about 99%.

This question is tricky, because you could be asking about people matching the #1 spot on their rank list or #1 place they had in mind before the madness began.

 

[SoyMilk]

Aww. There's no report. But in reality I'd guess nearly 90% get their top 5.

As if such data could be generalizable to an individual person. What if you're from CA for example and half your rankeable spots are CA.

 

[gutonc]

Actually the data does exist, sort of. See this thread http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/how-far-down-rank-list.1043514/

It isn't EM specific, but for all comers in the 2013 match, a US MD chance of matching into top 4 was 85.5%.

Here's the original document, page 39. http://b83c73bcf0e7ca356c80-e8560f4...ontent/uploads/2013/08/resultsanddata2013.pdf

That data's no more of a direct answer to the question than the data I posted. But you'll notice that the numbers are remarkably similar.