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I was recently talking with a student preparing to apply for pre-doc internship (APA-accredited programs only). Having completed mine already, I had thankfully repressed a lot of the agony that goes along with the process. For those who have gone through the process or watched others go through it, what do you think of the APPIC match system? Although I matched where I wanted to go and no one in my grad program had gone there prior to me (i.e., no "history" with the internship site), I am beginning to wonder if that's atypical. What are your experiences -- do you find it common that many sites tend to favor applicants from certain programs or "hold" slots for particular candidates? I know that, over the years, my internship site had an unusually high number of spots filled with applicants from the university with which the site itself was affiliated. I can also think of internship sites where at least one person from my grad program matches every single year -- and sometimes 2 match there! Where does this leave everyone else? Those without an "automatic in" somewhere? Would it be better to go back to the days before the match - where every tactic was fair game but at least everything was out in the open (relatively speaking)? Seems like the match eliminates some difficulties from the past but lots of the same strategies are still used to secure spots (even if that was never the intent behind the creation of the match system). Just wondered what others find...