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Q1. What are the odds?
A1. Greater than zero.
Q2. Is it a massive red flag?
A2. It would be difficult to characterize a second round of applications (sans signals) as a massive red flag, but it's also not a mystery what happened. In UME admissions you always get a little cluster of applications right before the deadline. Once in awhile you net someone really good out of that last batch, but most of the time it's too little too late.
A1. Greater than zero.
Q2. Is it a massive red flag?
A2. It would be difficult to characterize a second round of applications (sans signals) as a massive red flag, but it's also not a mystery what happened. In UME admissions you always get a little cluster of applications right before the deadline. Once in awhile you net someone really good out of that last batch, but most of the time it's too little too late.
This is for residency not medical school admissions. When you say it's not a mystery what happened, can you be more explicit in how programs will interpret the application submitted 5 days after the release date?
It is not a red flag. Is it a disdvantage? Likely a small one. We don’t know how each program handles later applicants. If it’s bothering you, you can always shoot them an email to them mentioning how you’re interested in them for XYZ reason and insert your eras pdf so they can review it. That may catch their attention.
Thanks, I'll do this for the ones I really like.
Depends on the specialty
I understand that, but there are parallels between the two processes.
Five days? Not a huge deal. Five weeks? It becomes apparent that your initial application strategy failed and you are panic-adding programs.
I would find this quite off-putting.
What's the best way to show interest now?
There really isn't. The whole point of signalling is to highlight yourself to a limited subset of programs.
Agree, this doesn't really exist apart from signalling. If there were some way to stand out then everyone would start doing it and it would rapidly become ineffective.
I panic added a few programs a week or two after opening. I got several interviews from my original batch of schools, none from my panic batch. YMMV
I ended up getting one from my panic batch today. TBD how many others I get
