Tough year

[Doowai]

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I just spoke with a good friend of mine (FMG) who knows he matched. Not sure where. His girl friend attends University of S Carolina. He told me, she said 16 from this class did not match. As well an AMG he is rotating with applied to Catego surgical positions, and did not match. However where they are rotating had 3 unfilled FP spots and they offered him one of those. I find this hard to believe but he told me the FP program had 14,000 applications today. I asked him if he did not mean 1,400 but he says it was 14,000. It seemed there was only about 600 scrmable spots open nationwide today.

Looks like another tough year. Anyone know how true that is about Univ of S Carolina

 

[irishgirlmd]

That is not true about U of SC. It's more like 6.

 

[irishgirlmd]

Also, most of those matched in their categorical program and had to scramble for prelim only. I think only 2 didn't match at all.

Maybe they were talking about MUSC. People forget their are 2 schools here.

 

[ms. a]

I have to say that I don't really believe the 14,000 number. Assuming there are still ~125 medical schools in the US, with an average of somewhere around 175 per class (trying to be generous), that makes under 22,000 forth year med students in the US. Again, being generous, assume that every single unmatched person sent their application to that school. So 14,000 of 22,000 people are unmatched? Only 1/3rd of all forth year med students matched? I don't buy it. Yes, a good number of the people sending in their applications could be FMGs and USIMGs, but would bring the number to something like 1/2 of all med students successfully matching. It still doesn't compute. I think your source heard wrong.

 

[Doowai]

Also, most of those matched in their categorical program and had to scramble for prelim only. I think only 2 didn't match at all.

Maybe they were talking about MUSC. People forget their are 2 schools here.

I texted him and asked if it was univ of S carolina or MUSC. He texted back it was MUSC.

 

[Doowai]

I have to say that I don't really believe the 14,000 number. Assuming there are still ~125 medical schools in the US, with an average of somewhere around 175 per class (trying to be generous), that makes under 22,000 forth year med students in the US. Again, being generous, assume that every single unmatched person sent their application to that school. So 14,000 of 22,000 people are unmatched? Only 1/3rd of all forth year med students matched? I don't buy it. Yes, a good number of the people sending in their applications could be FMGs and USIMGs, but would bring the number to something like 1/2 of all med students successfully matching. It still doesn't compute. I think your source heard wrong.

Yeah 14,000 applications sounds crazy to me too. I can only imagine about 6-8,000 unmatched applicants total - mostly FMG. 14,000 to one program sounds crazy. But who knows - that is why I am trying to double check things here.

The reason it worries me is the place that I accepted a prematch at does not send out contracts until they have a training permit from the board, which cannot happen until May. As a FMG it sweats me to think of desperate unmatched AMG's. I am hoping my friend is wrong.

 

[barcalounger]

It still doesn't compute. I think your source heard wrong.

I agree with you - it is simply impossible. If you look at the NRMP match stats from last year, there were 1,157 US seniors who did not match, and 6,433 IMGs who did not match. That is 7,590 unmatched applicants, total. Even if you allow for slightly more applicants this year, the OP states that almost twice as many people as there were total unmatched applicants last year applied to one program.

No offense to the OP, but this is how crazy rumors get started. Both claims made by OP (1) number of FP applicants and, (2) status of U South Carolina matching class (as admitted by OP in a subsequent post) = not true.

Also:

It seemed there was only about 600 scrmable spots open nationwide today.

If you log onto NRMP and check out the Regional Statistics by Specialty, you can see at a glance (without taking out a calculator) that there are over 1,000 scramble spots available nationwide. So all three claims are false. Sorry to be harsh - I just dislike the propagation of misinformation which can be easily fact-checked.