Advance Programs and ranking a prelim or TY?

[flowerss]

Does anybody know how this works? When it comes down to ranking your programs after interviews can you rank an advanced program and then list your prelim or TY spot? So if you don't get both then you won't match into either spot? Or is there two completely different rank list and you rank anesthesia programs in one and prelim and TY in another. So you could end up moving twice. Some help here would be greatly appreciated.

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[DreamLover]

Does anybody know how this works? When it comes down to ranking your programs after interviews can you rank an advanced program and then list your prelim or TY spot? So if you don't get both then you won't match into either spot? Or is there two completely different rank list and you rank anesthesia programs in one and prelim and TY in another. So you could end up moving twice. Some help here would be greatly appreciated.

yeah...you can end up moving twice...

How it works is you make your primary ROL...with your categoricals and advanced positions in the order you choose....then for each advanced program you rank, you will make a prelim/TY ROL...for example...you rank UCSF (an advance program), then you make a prelim/TY ROL with UCSF prelim Medicine and your home school prelim medicine and wherever else you would consider living....you do this for each advance program...so it is possible that you will match the advance program and NO prelim/TY spot and have to scramble for one...but it's done this way so if you aren't willing for example to move to Atlanta for a prelim yr you are interested in because you applied to Emory's advance program (that you didn't match) and then to California for the Advance program at UCSF (That you did match) you won't have to- Does that make sense? I've typed this pretty quickly

 

[flowerss]

yeah...you can end up moving twice...

How it works is you make your primary ROL...with your categoricals and advanced positions in the order you choose....then for each advanced program you rank, you will make a prelim/TY ROL...for example...you rank UCSF (an advance program), then you make a prelim/TY ROL with UCSF prelim Medicine and your home school prelim medicine and wherever else you would consider living....you do this for each advance program...so it is possible that you will match the advance program and NO prelim/TY spot and have to scramble for one...but it's done this way so if you aren't willing for example to move to Atlanta for a prelim yr you are interested in because you applied to Emory's advance program (that you didn't match) and then to California for the Advance program at UCSF (That you did match) you won't have to- Does that make sense? I've typed this pretty quickly

Appreciate it. Yeah it does make sense. Basically you could get your advanced and have to scramble but not your Prelim/TY and not the advanced. And since you can do this for each program your chances of moving twice are reduced as long as you rank Prelim/TY. Is that what you mean?

 

[DreamLover]

Appreciate it. Yeah it does make sense. Basically you could get your advanced and have to scramble but not your Prelim/TY and not the advanced. And since you can do this for each program your chances of moving twice are reduced as long as you rank Prelim/TY. Is that what you mean?

pretty much...having the sep prelim/TY ROL's for each advance program reduces the chance of moving multiple times...and from what I understand, you will not match a prelim/TY from the sep ROL if you don't match the Advance position...that would defeat the purpose of a secondary ROL...you'd have to rank a prelim/TY in your primary ROL in order to possibly match there and no where else...I don't know if people do that...I guess if they were afraid they wouldn't match at any of their Categorical or Advance programs that they might put a prelim/TY on the bottom of their primary ROL as a safety measure...

Isn't the NRMP fun??