Yes, apparently didn't fill. I am really not surprised. They didn't interview a ton of people this year and the new chairman is obsessed with getting future researchers, so much so that I think they may have overlooked some otherwise great candidates. I didn't think there were enough interviews to fill the spots they had, so I guess the impression was correct.
Too bad too, because this would be a great time to come here - new chairman, new AP director who I was the first one to sign out with today and it was great, and a pending new surg path director coming in from outside as well. Not many leaving either so things are not changing that much.
It will be very interesting though to see what kind of first years we end up with next year.
As for whether there are good scramblers, I think every year there are a certain number of people who either **** up the matching process or fail to go through it all together, so they always have to scramble. Sometimes too it is people who are transferring in from other specialties or who took time off or whatever.
The "not filling" thing happens every year to somewhere unexpected. It never really means much except that the people in charge of ranking applicants overlooked something.
. Well, at the very worst option, you matched at your #2!! 
