Only had those 3 interviews and matched at my #2 rank, which was tied with my #1. Both programs were towards the top of my list prior to interviewing. I’m still baffled at how lucky I got and beyond thankful to be at an awesome, supportive, and chill program with great attendings and co-residents.
Glad to hear it worked out for you, although it is a bit worrying to hear given that I have a similiar app (233 step 1, 238 step 2, no red flags ect). Unless you can think of a reason that you received so few interviews, I might be tempted to throw a 3-4 "safety" apps onto my stack of 38.
I honestly don’t know. As mentioned above I read all of my LORs prior to uploading them. I’m convinced it came down to a combo of LOA (again, not for academic, legal, or medical issues), late Step 2 CK (2° to LOA), and very few people going into psych from where I went to med school over the past 10 years (something like 15-17, with over 10 going to the home program, which I didn’t apply to). I know my med school has a track record of screwing-up MSPEs (e.g., uploading the wrong student or mixing-up students’ info between letters), so that’s a possibility but I don’t know if that was the case in my situation.
Interesting. I had many psych interviews but didn't match. internal had open seats in the SOAP and psych practically did not. There are simply so many more total seats for Internal.
