Waiver out of residency position. how will this affect me matching next year.

[gray136]

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Due to legitimate extreme circumstances I put in a waiver request for the program i matched at. I was a pretty solid applicant this past year with 20+ interview offers. And some with some really good places. I had to cancel a decent amount of good ones because of the circumstances. There are no hard feelings with them as they understood completely.

I want to know having interviewed and matched. How will these places view me a second time. A lot really like me i feel. But they now know i did not rank them 1 and canceled them the first time. At first glance will i look like i failed 4th year?

I applied mainly to midtier programs last year according to what people categorize them as. should aim lower this time.

step 1&2 244/266
2 honors rest pass
no red flags
more than Excellent letters id been told

 

[deleted480308]

Whats the reason you cancelled?

How will a program know it doesn’t happen again if they rank you?

 

[gray136]

Whats the reason you cancelled?

How will a program know it doesn’t happen again if they rank you?

you cant cancel without a legit reason. otherwise they would have banned me from the match. i dont wanna post identifying information online dude or i woulda said the reason.
the reason is impossible to happen twice. but may not get to say that f i dont get invited

 

[deleted480308]

you cant cancel without a legit reason. otherwise they would have banned me from the match. i dont wanna post identifying information online dude or i woulda said the reason.
the reason is impossible to happen twice. but may not get to say that f i dont get invited

You need a way to answer that question to PDs, good luck with the season

 

[DokterMom]

OK, from what you've written, it sounds like something really extreme and weird happened that:

1. caused you to cancel a bunch of interviews
2. yet didn't prevent you from certifying a rank order list and matching
3. but now prevents you from accepting the position you matched into.

I can certainly understand why you wouldn't want to post identifying information that clarifies your circumstances, but without knowing that information, I'd say you sound like a high-risk candidate or perhaps a bit of a flake, and yes, I would downgrade your application.

However, if your extenuating circumstances are legitimate and your reactions were the best someone could reasonably do under those particular circumstances, I would certainly be willing to reconsider your application. I would insist on full and candid transparency though. I would want to know:

1. Why did you cancel your interview at my institution? (probably the easiest to answer)
2. If 'whatever crisis' happened that now prevents you from accepting your match happened, why didn't you foresee that possibility and withdraw from the match?
3. And is this problem fully and finally resolved so that it won't recur to my detriment?

I'm going to suggest you consult privately with people who are in a position to give you better guidance, but tell them exactly what the problem is. Without knowing that, we can only talk in generalities.

 

[nimbus]

Have you been in contact with the PD at the program where you matched? If you really have a legitimate reason, maybe they’ll save a spot for you next cycle.

 

[DM27]

I can echo this that without details there it's hard to really give any sort of assessment. If it boils down to something major and tragic happened in your life and you had to miss interviews, still submitted a list, and have buyer's remorse about your program, you may have some trouble finding sympathy among PDs. If the story is something major and tragic happened in your life AFTER submission and due to whatever happened you now have an extreme location requirement that is untenable with your current match, then you will likely get a fair degree of sympathy.

For context, a co-resident of mine transferred out of our program to another program to be closer to a dying parent, there were no hard feelings there.

 

[Section31]

If you had a rock solid reason (e.g. my mother was dying of terminal cancer and I was the only plausible caregiver; I was injured in a commercial plane crash and had to learn to walk again; I had to have a liver transplant after a needle stick gave me fulminant Hep C) then no one would care.

If your reason was bad (e.g. I wasn’t sure anesthesia was for me; I had to find out who I really was inside; I was in prison) then you’re screwed. Totally screwed.

Example from sports: Bo Jackson was a RB drafted #1 overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. He didn’t want to play for them so he sat out the year and entered the draft again. This time he was picked in the 7th round. It cost him millions. No one trusted him.

Truth be told, if you had one of the “good” reasons above, they should probably just take you for the next class. You shouldn’t have to do the whole match again.