See your match result early?

[BS81]

using internet explorer or chrome

log into r3.nrmp.org

right-click the page and click View Page Source

press ctrl+f and search "allprograms"


http://forums.studentdoctor.net/index.php?threads/1060622/

Curious to see what you guys get from this....

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[prittypistol]

A

 

[285963]

Heard about this earlier today. The programmers have fixed this hack at this point.

 

[TexasPhysician]

Anyone get in on this early?

 

[jackson1]

Found out about the glitch this morning, but chose not to look. My parents are coming in to town so I want to actually be surprised! Figured that I've waited this long, I can wait a few more days.

 

[MedJosh]

I did and so did about 20 people from my school that I know of. It was legit. Waiting doesn't make it more gratifying to me. I was just as excited this morning as I would have been Friday and I got to do it in the privacy of my own home and could share with who I wanted. I had a few classmates that got places further down on their list than they would have hoped and were very happy not to be surprised in front everyone while their family cried in the audience.

 

[notdeadyet]

I would personally be cautious about discussing reviewing your match early. Whether it was a technical error or not, I would be careful. Low risk for match violation but high cost and the benefit of mentioning it on SDN is negligible...


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[AthensBeth]

Why is it a match violation to share where you matched early? I only ranked one program, and I matched, so I know where I matched. According to the Match Rules and Regs, there is nothing in there that says I can't share that information.

 

[MedJosh]

No where does it say it is a match violation to right click on your home page, if they are so negligent to have it exposed in the source code. If anyone violated the match it is the nrmp.

 

[Psychotic]

Why is it a match violation to share where you matched early? I only ranked one program, and I matched, so I know where I matched. According to the Match Rules and Regs, there is nothing in there that says I can't share that information.

Yours is a unique case and has nothing to do with the glitch. You ranked one place, and got the match email: let people put it together. You can share it with anybody you want.

 

[AthensBeth]

But the premise is this same. The people who took advantage of the glitch didnt hack anything. They looked at source code. It is the fault of the NRMP and whoever they hired as programmers, and anyone who looked at the code that was available is free to tell others where they matched. They aren't violating anything but a somewhat antiquated tradition.

 

[¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

yes, athensbeth is right. technically when you request a website, all the server sends to you is the source code. it is your browser that interprets that code into those pretty pages to show to you. so of course it cannot be a match violation because it is the nrmp that sent the result to you. you didn't hack their servers to find out

 

[shan564]

I don't think notdeadyet was implying that it's a match violation. He specifically said "low risk." His point was just that it should be avoided on the off chance that it violates some random obscure rule, and thereby causes problems for you in the future. I think we can all agree that this is a very very low risk, but I haven't read every single word of the NRMP rules, so I can't say that with certainty.

That said, if it were this time last year, I would have been all over that source code within seconds after I saw the OP.