What if... SOAP things

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Just for curiosity....
If there be no call from programs during the SOAP, is there any need to wait for the cycles...? 😕
Anyway, they have the whole day to call, so why sould I ask annoying question...? 🙂

 

[MedicalMoose]

Just for curiosity....
If there be no call from programs during the SOAP, is there any need to wait for the cycles...? 😕
Anyway, they have the whole day to call, so why sould I ask annoying question...? 🙂

Theoretically, a program could offer a spot to someone in one of the eight SOAP rounds without even making contact to an applicant. BUT, I imagine the odds of that are a lot like the general match interview & rank phase, in which candidates are very unlikely to match at a place they didn't interview at. And there are so many candidates per position in the SOAP that I can't imagine someone getting an offer without getting contacted.

With that being said, if I had ended up in this awful SOAP phase, I would have taken the entire week off to deal with it. What if Friday rolls around and a program didn't get someone they thought they were going to get in round 7, for whatever reason, and they need to make an immediate call to the next person in line? That person could be you, on Friday, and if you're not around to talk to them, they will move on to the next possible applicant. Until the last SOAP round of offers is extended on Friday (last offer made at 3pm eastern time, closes at 5pm), I think it's a good idea to be available to talk with programs.

I am very curious to know if someone as ever matched to a program in the general match without ever receiving contact from the program. Is it like "winning the lottery" odds?

 

[nazdar]

I am very curious to know if someone has ever matched to a program in the general match without ever receiving contact from the program. Is it like "winning the lottery" odds?

This would be quite amazing. I guess the applicant would have to rank a lot of programs where they applied but didn't interview. I considered ranking one program like this just for the hell of it; I missed the interview due to traveling delays, and they couldn't reschedule 🙁