How many applicants does a solid program get?

[drmistga]

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I have never wanted to ask at interviews but I have been wondering how many applicants does a solid program get-and I know all programs are different but I mean a program that is a good academic situation and of those how many do they typically interview-I am just curious how it compares to medical school.

Has anybody found that psych is a little more compeititive than they thought? As I have interviewed at some really strong programs I have realized the caliber of resident and applicants they get-such as number one in their class med students, huge board scores and just general all-around solid applicants. I guess I was a bit skewed looking at the data out there that says a 210 is the avj psych board score and it is not too competitive. Surprised me that is all

 

[sga430]

most of the program i interviewed at seemed to have the following:

they will invite about 20% of the applicants for an interview. also they interview about 10-11 people per spot. syracuse interviews about 5 per spot so that was an exception.

 

[Adam_K]

Look up the data on FREIDA. Many, but not all programs list the number of "Interviews conducted last year for first year positions".

At the programs I've visited, they seem to interview about 8-10x as many applicants as they have positions (there are one or two exceptions). However, considering that the number of ranks per position last year (overall for all applicants in psych) was about 7.4, not everyone invited gets ranked. (Also, some applicants accept prematch positions which helps to drive that number down.)

Regarding the number of applicants, I have heard that there were many more this year than last. But, as the ERAS statistics are unavailable to us, that's just anecdotal.

 

[tr]

Has anybody found that psych is a little more competitive than they thought? As I have interviewed at some really strong programs I have realized the caliber of resident and applicants they get-such as number one in their class med students, huge board scores and just general all-around solid applicants. I guess I was a bit skewed looking at the data out there that says a 210 is the avj psych board score and it is not too competitive. Surprised me that is all

I think I was prepared for the idea that interviewees at top programs are mostly going to be top applicants. I am not sure how you found out the actual class rank and board scores of your fellow interviewees - did you ask them, or what?

I will say that I was pretty surprised at the # of interviews I got given my admittedly mediocre stats. I am still worried that I am going to have to go way deep into my ROL though. 🙁

 

[drmistga]

I was not talking about other applicants but rather the current residents that were at programs-it was fellow residents who mentioned that they had a people who were numb 1 in their class here and told me a few impressive board scores of people but I did not ask I guess they were just selling the program

 

[atsai3]

I have never wanted to ask at interviews but I have been wondering how many applicants does a solid program get-and I know all programs are different but I mean a program that is a good academic situation and of those how many do they typically interview-I am just curious how it compares to medical school.

Hard to say how many applicants the various programs get. Haven't seen many numbers, just here and there. Stanford receives in the neighborhood of 325 applications and grants about 100 interviews. UCSF and UW interview 75 candidates (but I don't know how many applications they receive).

-AT.

 

[JMD]

UCSF and UW interview 75 candidates (but I don't know how many applications they receive).-AT.

I don't know how they came up with this, but I heard both a chair and psych applicant say UCSF is the most competitive place this year. True or not, it did seem like everyone (well, alot o' people) on the interview trail had applied to UCSF... and it seemed like I heard alot of "UCSF didn't offer me an interview," too (which was my case). True or not, I think SF is just that attractive of a city for all of us liberal psychiatry-types 🙂 .

 

[drmistga]

are you gay? Just curious honestly if UCSF or any SanFran program has a higher number of gays due to the demographics of the city-would be interesting to know.

 

[PsychMD2100]

I think there's no mistaking that there's certainly a higher number of OUT GLBT individuals at UCSF than at other places. While it's near impossible to detect trends at places where sexual orientation is a less public matter, it is an interesting question.

 

[gardilimo]

its weird, i got an interview ay UCSF and was not offered an interview at stanford, ucla or any harvard program but south shore. its goes to show that this process is subjective in that my interests and research match very well with ucsf and i think they pay attention to that.

i did get some offers from what some may say are known to be other very competitive programs but my question is this: what is the chance that they are interviewing you as a cushion and that most likely they are just interviewing you to have someone to put near the bottom of their list? self disparaging i know but im just curious.

and yes, i did notice many open gay men at ucsf but i have noticed many gay men in psychiatry in general...