Propofol,
I just certified my ROL this afternoon and received quite a surprise. I'm afraid you're gonna be paying a lot more than that. Unless I'm mistaken, the NRMP is going to charge you for all the programs you're ranking on your Supplemental List as well. In fact, if you have a few different Supplemental Lists that are going to be assigned to each of the programs on your Primary List, they count as separate programs and you get double charged.
Allow me to elaborate:
I ranked 11 Anesthesiology programs, but 4 of them have both Categorical and Supplemental options. So that makes 15 programs in my Primary Rank List.
I interviewed at four Transitional Year programs: 2 in the South (call them programs W and X) and 2 in the Midwest (programs Y and Z).
To all of the Anesthesiology programs in the South, I've attached Supplemental List A which lists the TY programs in the following order: W - X - Y - Z.
Conversely, to all the Anesthesiology programs in the Midwest, I attached Supplemental List B which ranks the TY programs in the order: Y - Z - W - X.
Here's the deal... when I certified my list, the NRMP e-mailed me a message saying I've ranked a total of 23 programs.... 15 in my Primary List, 4 in Supplemental List A, and 4 in Supplemental List B. According to my calculations, this is going to cost me an extra $240 dollars in fees ($30 bucks times 8 programs over the free 15). WTF !?!?!?!?!?!?
Is this correct ?!? What a scam !
Hey, I'm going to ask this question in the General Residency Forum. It seems to apply to the Rads, Optho, and Derm people too.