decreased competitiveness this year

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Who really knows. My guess would be that it's a combination of everyone speculating about the effect of health care reform on plastic surgery (and private practice in general) coupled with the realization that other fields are training their residents to perform aspects of plastic surgery in fewer training years (ie ENT is doing their own flaps at many (if not all) institutions, ortho is an avenue to hand surgery and even trains its residents to raise flaps in LE recon at some places like WashU). Perhaps this teases out the iffy applicants who generally dual apply so those of us who are remaining are 100% committed to matching and therefore submit apps everywhere. This is just my two cents and I'll defer to the veterans of this forum who know the field far better than I
 
Where did you get this years numbers from? The rejections I've gotten have said they had close to 200 applicants this year. What am I missing here?
 
Where did you get this years numbers from? The rejections I've gotten have said they had close to 200 applicants this year. What am I missing here?
did you look at the link in the original post?
 
did you look at the link in the original post?

Charting outcomes in the match PDF said there was 207 applicants last year from both us seniors and non us senior applicants. Which is close to the 214 number in that PDF. That leads me to believe that 2014 listed on the OP PDF is from the match which occurred March 2014. Thus, the question would be why there would be a decrease last year.

Further, the charting outcomes says last years match was about 200 and the rejections I've gotten have said they received almost 200 applications. Those match up. I'm just trying to get clarification, chronicidal.
 
I'm actually curious if anyone has an explanation for why the number of applications went up from 235 to 396 between 2011 and 2012. It looks like last year was just 10% behind the baseline in 2010 and 2011.

It seems like it'd be tough to explain outside of clerical error or something changing in the way things were classified. Interesting.
 
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