Real talk. My core rotation site during third year opened a brand new program and told me they were “only interviewing the right side of the bell curve” for their first class.
no lie I had a rank list of all my programs as I was getting invites and have been tweaking it after every interview
Oh I have one too but after a few of these it gets blurry. Like I have my #1 for sure and know which programs are in the top tier but the order is killing me. Basically on like #3/4 do I rank the programs I had great interactions with but are further from family (very important factor), or the places that I had okay to good interactions with but that are directly next to family. Its a few scattered Big Ten programs vs a couple in Chicago itself so COL is a big difference too. Who said that 4th year has no stress at all?
I'm doing a running list. I was told it makes it easier so recency bias isn't quite as influential.
Yeah thats been my experience with Neuro (mostly). And at the level that I'm applying and getting love from they largely are the same. This is worse than med school apps haha
i wear a patagonia to each one so i think you're fine going even more casual if you want tbh
Anything with a full collar should be fine. I wear a plain button down shirt.
I wrote 5 personalized emails with a board exam update AND Commented on significant ties/match with program mission AND expressing my interest. I’m 0/5 on them.
wtf... i might just stick with my no LOI strategy then cuz that seems to be working ok
I'm leery of that stat due to the aforementioned concerns. I trust no one but my sdn frans this cycle.
Can you share this graph?
I’d like to see this too
I saw something similar for the USMD. I just typed in google "matching top 3 US MD residency match" and somehow it popped up.
I just made a new one for ERAS perod.
It’s what i did
I would use your school email for communication with programs and vsas/auditions. It's easier for them to see an email from a .edu school email I think and it reinforces where you're from. My school also require us to use our school email for ERAS and while I was pissed about this at first it hasn't been an issue at all. All my ERAS emails for interviews get immediately forwarded to my gmail and to my phone via text so when I get an invite I get three notifications immediately. I haven't missed one invite because of being too slow so I'd say it's working well so far.
Just make one now. If you link to eras then it's actually linked to AAMC account overall and will be used for VSAS. That's perfectly fine and recommended.
Yeah mine is similar to sunshine. blurb about why this program. then a little about ties to the area. 0/25 right now. There's a program 5 minutes away from my house and they replied back with "thank you for your interest".
25???
I think this is why a lot of programs dismiss LOI. Like if you’re sending them to a bunch of programs, do they actually mean anything?
Not gonna yield anything when this rolls out of control and everyone sends them to everyone
This is dumb. No its not worth it bc you're actively devalueing LOIs even for the program you are sending them to! let alone ruining it for everyone else. The match isnt hunger games. Its can I be normal and a likeable person for a few hours in front of a program. If not, you've got other problems.
I have classmates that send LOIs periodically to the same program. This cycle is just bringing out the paranoia in everyone. It's dry out there and the thirst is real.
Honestly tho who knows if its literally making things worse for u since ur annoying the program coordinators.. I've done pretty decently so far without sending a single LOI and program coordinators at interviews have literally said that LOI's are a headache. I think the risk/reward ratio isn't that great
Because imagine being a PD and you get 64 LOIs. Are you going to pay any attention to them the next cycle? If many applicants did this many LOIs, they lose their value. Its a Letter of Interest, not a "gib me interview pls" letter.
64 is a real low estimate for IM I bet they're sifting through 300+ in a normal cycle and like 500 this year
Atta boy! At least you got it. They can go to the bottom of your list if need be. Another one down, onto the next one
Dude I feel you. Had three this week and I'm drained
Too late. People have already made them pointless. See above.
Amen. They said in the group thing “some of you are here because you auditioned, just FYI we don’t interview every auditioner so congrats.”
I'm sorry but this is inaccurate. Some DO students take PE (same thing but harder time constraints + OMM) near the *beginning* of third year and many take it winter or early spring. They aren't getting study time for CS/PE lol. If anything, the further into rotations you are the more bad habits you pick up compared to the unrealistic CS/PE exam. MD students aren't just sitting around with just step 1 either. That's for specific fields and mostly for high scorers applying to those fields. I don't know enough about IMG situation but I can't imagine why anyone is rushed for CS. You don't need to do a bunch of rotations to pass an exam not based on clinical knowledge.
I advocate using a separate email because there is no point in receiving the BS emails schools blow up your regular email addy with daily.
DOs don’t take CS. It’s like 30/6500 that do every year. Not a reliable statistic.
The only reason I responded was that the tone of the post was that IMGs have to do all of those things you just listed and AMGs do not. That's just not true. Everyone has all of those things to do at the same time. And, yes, the test is a complete BS money grab to most people.
