All you could really do is fork over several hundred dollars to throw in a ton more programs that you'd be over-competitive for as late ERAS addons. I think 40 apps is way on the low side for you considering not US citizen
Yeah, I was surprised too. But I do know cases IRL of competitive people getting like 40+ interviews because they were way too neurotic about apps, obviously they cancelled most of them due to travel/cost issues. This year that would just be 40 afternoons in front of a webcam.
Yeah, as a Canadian I would have done at least 100. If you still have a chance I'd apply to more. Also, I'm assuming your COMLEX scores are pretty good too? I feel that so many DOs just report their step scores on here thinking that programs will just ignore comlex, which they probably will unless you've done poorly on it.
Well, ranked should theoretically be very close to IIs, unless people are attending the interview and then not even ranking it. Like, they'd have to prefer SOAPing to ranking it. I can't imagine many people do a lot of that.
Do you now have scores/evals entered? If so, would definitely send an update letter that says "Due to COVID grading was delayed, here look I Honored both my surgical rotations"
They might be counting applicants the same way the NRMP does, based on what specialty you rank as your #1, so that you don't get double or triple counted into your backups. Not sure though. All the numbers for ENT look correct
Even to me (as a non-PD), that does not sound very good. Did your school not indicate *grade affected by COVID* at all?
Interesting, so to skew the data they'd have to alternate the ranks. Like if you applied to IM with FM as a backup, you'd have to mix a few FM in between your IM ranks. Must keep the skew very minimal, or else we'd never see GenSurg and IM so similar to Derm!
The MSPE says the rotations were affected by COVID, but the grades on the transcript just say “IP”. My school specifically said “If any of you have to go through the match again your grades and MSPE will reflect your evaluation from the makeup rotation. The change will not be made to your transcript or MSPE this year.”
I agree. Your scores seem to be within range.. and I am assuming you applied to a broad range of programs. Could you reach out to your PD to see what they think? And I think some LOIs should be sent out as well (maybe have your letter writers reach out to some places).
So is it basically what I thought and it’s short-sighted to say that 7% of the applicants to FM are taking 50% of the interviews? Sorry didn’t have chance to read paper yet
Unclear, it seems like the only skew would be people who ranked their backup in the middle of their specialty of choice, and since IM and GS are roughly the same as Derm (which is never really used as a backup) I actually still completely trust the numbers. Potential exception for FM.
Ok, my only thing is that there are TONS of people applying who never even interviewed in the specialty, even for ENT. Only like 75% of applicants even went on a single interview. When you take that into consideration I think the posted numbers are far more reasonable....like 23% of FM applicants taking 50% of the interviews. The only reason it is "7%" is that everyone uses it as a backup. Same for IM. Certainly surprising to see that such a large chunk of ENT applicants never even interviewed though. So hard to even know what that means.
Holy fudge, it feels like it’s been an eternity...
2 friends don't have it and are struggling with invites. 1 friend got step 2 back and already got 4 this week.
Did you simply request a transcript through ERAS to update your score, or did you email programs as well? I'm wondering if just requesting a new transcript through ERAS is sufficient for program to know that you have a new score.
I re-transmitted in ERAS to all and let 6 programs know, 5 by email and 1 in person because it’s my core site and I’m currently there. Only 1 of the emailed programs responded with cut and paste, 0 invites from emailed programs. My core site invited me later that day.
I don't get my score until December 7/8th. Would it be too late to update programs?
Definitely still transmit to everyone! (Unless it’s not a pass). This is a weird cycle so you could still get a couple fresh interviews, and the programs you already interviewed at will need it for ranking.
Judging by the interviews you received, it sounds like they know about the update even if you don't email them. Thanks for responding!
This has been the longest three weeks of all of Med school haha. I thought 4th year was supposed to be fun.
Lol yeah I was really looking forward to the travel. Now I’m just refreshing my phone constantly.
Specialty?
+2. Did an away there too and didn’t even get a courtesy as of yet. Exactly the same otherwise
Last year a psych PD on SDN said many places were wrapping up invites at the one month mark, ~2.5 weeks after MSPE was released for us. This was someone who was telling us to chill leading up to that point. I think I still got a couple after that point and I got one waaaay later that was almost definitely a cancellation. If anyone was thinking about doing LOIs you might want to do that this upcoming week.
