matching anesthesia in california

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[Chip N Sawbones]

You'll be fine if you're that eager to live with smog, bad taxes, worse real estate prices and no guns. A few California programs didn't even fill last year. At the same time, you should apply to programs outside southern California as backups, unless living away from your family for 3-4 years would be worse for you than not matching at all and wasting four years of your life and a few hundred thousand dollars in tuition. You will have some vacation time in which you can see your family, and it isn't like they'll be seeing a lot of you when you're working 80 hours a week anyhow.

 

[rakotomazoto]

If you interviewed at every SoCal program, you wouldn't need to apply elsewhere, there are enough spots to go around and the programs vary in how difficult it is to get in. If your only objective is to end up SOMEWHERE in southern California, you've got nothing to worry about. Your backup could be staying at your current med school, don't waste your time and money running all over the country doing unnecessary interviews. Every year, applicants spend thousands travelling the country but when it's time to sit down and make your actual rank list, location usually ends up trumping all the other BS for most people.