Are residency programs required to inform you of rejection for interview?

[SheToldMeNotToComeHere]

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My gf is in the process of being informed about interviews for ENT residency, of which she applied to some 90 schools, and because I'm planning to move where she matches, I'm monitoring the list as interviews and rejections come in, just so I can know what my final destination might look like. So far something along lines of 7 rejections, 3 interviews, and 1 wait-list. Are the programs required to inform you yes or no if you get an interview? Or could she get through the entire process and never hear from programs at all? And if they do, do they inform you when they know? Or do they just wait until day and do a giant dump bucket of rejections to the applicants that didnt make the cut?

This will also help me in projecting the appropriate level of optimism come next month when she's going nuts over what places she hasn't heard back from.

Thanks

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[LucidSplash]

No they aren’t required to tell you you’re rejected. Some will. Some won’t. Some rejections will come as they review applications. Some will come superfluously at the end of the interview season when it’s already obvious. And some will just never come and you’ll just assume they aren’t coming.

 

[SheToldMeNotToComeHere]

Okay thanks. That stinks. At what point is it safe to say no more interviews are coming? End of November? End of December? Obviously there are exceptions, just curious on a ballpark timeframe so I can know when to stop holding out hope for certain locations.

 

[SLUser11]

My gf is in the process of being informed about interviews for ENT residency, of which she applied to some 90 schools, and because I'm planning to move where she matches, I'm monitoring the list as interviews and rejections come in, just so I can know what my final destination might look like. So far something along lines of 7 rejections, 3 interviews, and 1 wait-list. Are the programs required to inform you yes or no if you get an interview? Or could she get through the entire process and never hear from programs at all? And if they do, do they inform you when they know? Or do they just wait until day and do a giant dump bucket of rejections to the applicants that didnt make the cut?

This will also help me in projecting the appropriate level of optimism come next month when she's going nuts over what places she hasn't heard back from.

Thanks

(and I searched the site for this answer with no luck)

Still waiting to hear from a few programs, and I applied in 2005.....

 

[kemper6036]

When I applied, most did not inform you if you were rejected. Really rude. You paid the money, least they can do is send you a canned email

 

[Winged Scapula]

Still waiting to hear from a few programs, and I applied in 2005.....

Hey that's my line!