Can you have your home PD, an advisor, or mentor call or email the PD on your behalf? Somebody who wrote one of your letters? This would be the best option if it's at all possible, IMO. I haven't heard of people calling the PC, personally, so hoping others could speak to that... Also, GL!! So frustrating!
Not facecious. Apparently in one of my interviews they said it's put in the same category as "college athlete, Military, Eagle Scout". I am like yeah it's cool but the other 2 defiinitely are cooler haha.
Uh wow lol. No offense to the other two, but that is a weird grouping of things.
Thanks for the reply! Before I got put on the waitlist, I had reached out to my advisor and asked about this, and she told me to ask my home PC to reach out to the program about invites. However, my home PC never responded to my email lol. I could potentially ask a letter writer, though none of them have significant connections to the program as far as I'm aware.
Same lol
You can only rank 20 without paying extra.
Bit of a blanket statement.
Only exceptions I really see to this are couples matching and maybe IMG, but they tend to match with way less than 20 anyways.
Amen. No point in ranking more than say 15 at least for IM any more than that is basically diminishing returns. 100% likely to match after 12-15 as a USDO or USMD
It’s more about giving other med students a shot at programs you have zero interest in during this crazy season. But yeah, it’s selfish to keep going past 15 imo, really just ego inflating more than serious interviewing unless one of those programs was actually in your top 5 pre-season. It works out for the individual, but overall ****s others.
15 for advance or you including prelim/TY in that?.. It’s not on me to give other students a shot of programs. If I wasn’t interested in a place I wouldnt apply there and going to interview gives me more information making a decision. Honestly I don’t get this whole idea about how people should be dropping interviews for others. I want to go to all the ones I have and I am considering all the places I got .
Doing over 20 is common for most people who have an intern/prelim year.
15 advanced, prelims are a separate thing. How many programs did you apply to?
agree
I don't see anything wrong with doing up to 20. These people complaining about you are still very idealistic. They've surely been told the phrase, "Well in the real world..." by many people in their lives before... The real world starts here.
Yeah but you were going into FM, anyone doing a prelim/TY year will be doing 20+ interviews.
have 9, done 9, kinda am just ok being done tbh.Me just sitting here with a single-digit number of interviews
You make a good point, it makes a difference. Doesnt make it less difficult. However, mine were in person so that changes the situation a lot.
It’s not idealism, it’s recognizing that the system is ****ed right now and making a principled decision to not hoard. After 15, you really don’t gain much other than attending interviews for the ego boost.
Dude, already clarified, no one is talking about combined numbers advanced and prelim. If you’re doing 20+ advanced and 20+ prelim, then that’s an issue.
I get that you have strong feelings about this, and I respect your viewpoint but I hope you realize the "I would rather be co-resident" argument is a poor one.
It’s not an argument for why you shouldn’t attend a ton of interviews, it’s an expression of personal feelings and the traits that I see connected with hoarding.
Yeah I mean, having a wife and kids, I totally understand just going on every interview you get because the idea of not matching with a wife and kids at home would be way worse than some theoretical concern for hoarding.
Why would you care? You’re under no obligation to rank any program. I seriously doubt anyone is making a list of who didn’t rank programs they interviewed at to send to the programs.
Besides the fact that you would prefer not matching than match at that specific program, I don't think that's something anyone can find out nor hold against you.
You're supposed to only send a LOI to your number 1 program. Telling other programs (2 or lower on your ROL) that you are ranking them highly is like telling them "you're not my number 1."
This is what I will be doing.
In case there was any question, this is true. Programs will never know where, or if, you ranked them. Only if you don't match and if the program drops below you on their rank list, they would know that you didn't rank them at all. Likewise, if a program doesn't fill and you match lower than them on your list (or don't match at all), then you know that they didn't rank you. Your school won't get any information about this at all.
How would they find out if you don't match though? Unless you're very popular on social media and post about it. I can't see how they would know. Or maybe if the program is your home program.
Dang, I didn't know about that.
I think it's only fair that applicants get a similar list. 😉
