TY question

[thesauce]

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I was looking through the charting outcomes of the match (the corrected one) and found something that I thought was strange:

Regarding Transitional Year Programs, only 2 U.S. seniors didn't match after ranking 5 or more TY programs, and both of them had "16 or more" ranks on their list. Even in the independant applicants section, the only person with "16 or more" ranks didn't match.

It seems really bizarre that someone would get that many interviews and not match, especially considering that every U.S. senior who ranked 5-15 did.

Just from a statistical standpoint, what is your take on this? The only explanations that I can think of are:

1. These people were superstars on paper but horrible in interviews (seems unlikely to me)

2. These people ranked programs that they didn't interview at and the computer system didn't know that they weren't 'real' ranks

3. These people applied for multiple specialties an ended up in one that didn't require an internship year

Any thoughts?

 

[Jason110]

I think this has to do with the fact that many Anesthesia and Radiology programs (and likely other specialties too) have PGY-1 and PGY-2 spots. Regarding the PGY-1 spots, people do their PGY-1 at the same place they do the rest of their residency. In the cases above, I'm guessing the applicants applied for and interviewed at the TY programs, but matched into a anes/rads residency that was starting as a PGY-1.