I've had two of the AOA residency programs that I applied to email me within a couple weeks of application saying that they have decided not to participate in the DO match and that I need to reapply in the MD match to be considered. Is this normal? These aren't exactly competitive programs and they apparently just took my time and application fees and said "thank you sir may I have another". This seems a) totally sleezy and b) criminal- there is no way they found out two weeks ago that they couldn't participate in the match, they must have had inklings for months.