Any advice on how to approach the application process when you're already set on one and only one program?
Any advice on how to approach the application process when you're already set on one and only one program?
Possibly but why is you're heart set on only one program?
I'm in the same boat as 2tall for the same reason. How would one know if they looked better/worse on paper than the current residents of the program (for a dually accredited program)? It may be a moot point for me because I have yet to successfully schedule a rotation at the program, but just in case🙂.
The easiest proxy is probably a list of their residents' medical schools. That's pretty much the only way programs signal how competitive their program is beyond pure word of mouth. Of course, not all the best residents come from the best medical schools by any means, but many of the most "competitive" ones tend to, if only for entirely self-fulfilling prophesy sorts of reasons.
Thanks, Billypilgrim.🙂
Call up the program's coordinator or director & tell them you're hell bent on getting into that 1 program & that you're willing to prove it by doing anything they offer you such as an elective, Sub-I or shadowing a resident or attending.
That IMHO has given the people who wanted to get into my old program the message that they really wanted to be there.
Just saying they're the #1 doesn't prove it. I'd say about 33% of the applicants said we were the number #1, and we knew there was something up with that (lying? Maybe we were their #1, but saw another program later on they liked better) because some of them we ranked high and they got into other programs. The way the Match works, it favors the applicants choice over the program's choice, so if we truly were their #1 they would've come to us.
Are you saying that programs are more likely to rank an applicant higher if they truly believe that applicants are going to rank the program#1?
[email protected] you'd deny me any information of my intentions are insincere? Ha! Hope I see you on the interview trail Rai. 😎
To answer R's ?s
Don't get me started on the tiers!
Don't think I want to do research.
The faculty would be a strong pull, not overwhelming.
My primary reasons are location and family.
I don't think I'd have a problem getting into the program, but I guess you can never be sure. Even if I don't have overabundant love for the program @ the interview day, I'm a pretty easygoing guy. I could make residency work. People stay in loveless marriages all the time.