Hello fellow medical students. MD student here on east coast and frustrated with VSAS. I applied to a bunch of emergency medicine, internal medicine, and a few other specialties and was only able to set up two rotations successfully. One was an emergency medicine rotation and the other was an internal medicine. The rest of my rotations were "denied." I have determined through some carefully placed phone calls and emails that there is a high likelihood that many of these places I applied to didn't bother to update rotation availability and I ended up applying to several places that were already full. Simply stated, I applied to several locations where there was no chance I could complete a rotation there. This would be fine, except I spent $15 for each of these sites.
Does anyone else have experiences similar to this? I spent nearly $500 on VSAS and I bet half that money was a waste just because the rotations were already full. VSAS shouldn't be able to take our money for rotations that aren't actually available.
Does anyone else have experiences similar to this? I spent nearly $500 on VSAS and I bet half that money was a waste just because the rotations were already full. VSAS shouldn't be able to take our money for rotations that aren't actually available.