2005 applicants - how many programs did you apply to?
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b&ierstiefel
Actually yaah, I applied to a dead even 20 programs. Should I vote for 15-20 or 20-30? 😉
P.S. it's a rhetorical question...I'm just being silly
P.S. it's a rhetorical question...I'm just being silly
Rhetorical, eh? Yeah, I guess I goofed. Oh well. Stupid is as stupid does. Pick the one you feel like picking. If 20 feels like too many, pick 15-20. If the 20th program you picked was really awesome and you felt like limiting yourself to 20 was tough, pick 20-25.
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b&ierstiefel
Hey yaah, perhaps make this a sticky?...if we have room for stickies of course...god forbid the whole first page of threads are clogged with stickies.
No, I choose to limit the stickies. This is a temporary poll anyway, you can only vote once. Can bump it up in a few weeks to see if anyone else will vote. Stickies are like reality TV shows. If there are too many of them, no one will look at any of them.
I told one of my attendings last week that I was sending out 20 applications. She laughed and said that path isn't that competitive.
I guess we are just a little more paranoid. I hope she is correct. I have 2 interviews and 18 nothing so far. Even though it is early, this doesnt exactly put me in a commanding position.
I guess we are just a little more paranoid. I hope she is correct. I have 2 interviews and 18 nothing so far. Even though it is early, this doesnt exactly put me in a commanding position.
i figure, if they all give you interviews, you can always decline, but if you get no offers by end of october/november, it can definitely feel weird going back and sending your application out again. okay, eating the cost sucks, but hey, at least you're seeing a lot of the country. 🙂 that was my excuse for applying to 21. btw, i have no interviews either, even though my application has been in since 9/6. i'm told it's because i have no lor's in yet.
I applied to lucky 13. Don't know why. Just sort of ended up that way. I am an average (at best) med student with no research, so I applied mostly to moderately to minimally competitive programs with two or three "reach" programs thrown in for fun. No interviews yet but I'm still hoping.
I applied to 30 programs! Is that the record? I'm actually glad I applied to so many. Two of my interviews are at great places I threw in at the last minute (Iowa, Utah). Four interviews so far total, many others have told me they need my transcript or at least 2 LOR's to review my application. This process is actually fun when I'm not hyperventilating.
36 votes so far - lots of folks in the middle - around 15-20.
I guess an interesting follow up would be, "how many interviews did you end up going on."
I guess an interesting follow up would be, "how many interviews did you end up going on."
Or a "how many interviews did you get?"yaah said:
In the interests of data integrity, I think we will have to chuck the last 5 votes...
Looks like people are erring on the side of having more apps than less.
I wonder how much of the 20-30er's are split (20-25 vs 26-30).
geddy said:
Yup. Haven't seen many of the newer episodes - I always seem to miss it on sunday nights. I have watched lots of reruns and have lots of old episodes on tape (most of first 8-9 seasons).
Favorite episodes: Lots of the season where Conan OBrien was involved (the monorail, the nuclear plant strike, Homer's bypass, etc).
