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4th year student here. I know this is a weird year for residency interviewing due to COVID, but I'm starting to worry, cuz I'm hearing nothing back. I'm a competitive applicant for Psych with 220's step, psychology/biology undergrad, mid tier student at school with no red flags. I feel like I over applied, 55 programs for psych, but like I said its a weird year and with online interviews I thought to over apply. The thing is I'm hearing nothing back. One denial so far, two secondaries, but no interview invites so far. The one way I messed up was I forgot to assign my board scores to programs. I had them uploaded, but didn't have them assigned for programs to see, but got them in 2 days after applications were released. I guess this is a common mistake students do, because this process is somewhat odd and requires one more step after the USMLE and NBOME do their part of the score release.
For other specialties I've heard it moving along at an appropriate rate. My two psych friends have had only one or two interviews lined up. I'm kind of worried that without my scores on day one, I may have been overlooked by programs as that is the first criteria for interview invites. I've also heard that programs get updates when a student updates their application, and that this has actually worked to some people's favor, I.E. a student adding an extra LOR late in the cycle, a program seeing this update and reviews the students app and sends them an invite. Since it was slow with psych so far, I am wondering if programs are taking time to review applicants and then sending out invites. If so then my scores being 2 days late shouldn't make a difference, but you never know.
So what should my next step be? Should I email program directors saying, "Hey I forgot to upload my scores to ERAS, but it is now in if you could please take a look at my application?" If not program directors, who should I contact to make this information known? And if this is a poor avenue of attack what else should I do? Letter or intent to different programs? I just feel like this should be moving so much quicker and am a little bummed out and want to be proactive in this situation. Thank you everybody.
For other specialties I've heard it moving along at an appropriate rate. My two psych friends have had only one or two interviews lined up. I'm kind of worried that without my scores on day one, I may have been overlooked by programs as that is the first criteria for interview invites. I've also heard that programs get updates when a student updates their application, and that this has actually worked to some people's favor, I.E. a student adding an extra LOR late in the cycle, a program seeing this update and reviews the students app and sends them an invite. Since it was slow with psych so far, I am wondering if programs are taking time to review applicants and then sending out invites. If so then my scores being 2 days late shouldn't make a difference, but you never know.
So what should my next step be? Should I email program directors saying, "Hey I forgot to upload my scores to ERAS, but it is now in if you could please take a look at my application?" If not program directors, who should I contact to make this information known? And if this is a poor avenue of attack what else should I do? Letter or intent to different programs? I just feel like this should be moving so much quicker and am a little bummed out and want to be proactive in this situation. Thank you everybody.
