Matched at Pitt for the 5 year track. Whoever is going to Pitt give me a holler (PM) so I can find out who my new buddies are going to be!

Matched at HJD/NYU
And I am from far far away, any body going say hello

Would you all mind leaving some stats about yourself? That would be helpful. Thanks.

Matched at UIC in Chicago.....anyone else who matched their send me a pm...

Matched at Hawaii!!!

Step 1: 231
Step 2: 228 (available)

No preclin honors, one 3rd yr honors (mostly "near honors" or whatever they call it when you don't quite make the cut for the rest - no screw-ups)
honors on my ortho rotations but I'm not sure if those made the app
No AOA at my school
Lots of research (a couple pubs, many conference presentations)

~40 apps
9 interviews, would have been happy at any of them:

1. UNM
2. UCSD
3. Atlanta Med Center
4. UW
5. Dartmouth
6. USC
7. UF Jacksonville
8. Ochsner
9. LSU

Matched at No. 1 UNM! I am stoked.

Congratulations to everyone who matched! Looks like someone is going to unleash our motley crew on a mass of unsuspecting patients come july!

Undergrad- State university rated No. 1(party school by playboy that is)
Med school- Also State university, not on USNWR
USMLE I- 255
USMLE II- 267 (available)
Bench press >300
Clinical- all H except peds (HP)
AOA+
Liscenced physical therapist
Statitics MPH
Pubs 1 with 2 presentations and 1 in the mail
Rotated at 3 Ortho programs

Applied to 30 offered 22 went to 14

Most significant factors in decision were program depth/breadth/academics, geography, structure

Interviewed at- UPenn, Emory, UConn,Brown, RWJMS, UNC, Duke, Union, Tufts, BU, Temple, Monmouth, UVA, Penn State

Matched at No. 1! UPENN 5yr so excited!!!!!!!!!

The ampleness of adiposity,

Fatman

Guess I will follow format:

MCAT: 39

Medical School: Top Tier Medical School

Step I: 260s

Step II CK: haven't taken

Preclinical: Mostly honors (who cares?)

Third-year Clinical (Honors/High Pass/Pass): Honors (Pediatrics, Medicine, Psychiatry, Neuro, Surgery, OB/Gyn), High Pass (Emergency Medicine)

Fourth-year Clinical (same as third-year): 3/3 Ortho Honors (one home, two aways), haven't checked on others

Alpha Omega Alpha: No

Research: 3 pubs (2 JBJS, 1 JOT)

Programs applied to: 33

Interviews Offered: 28

Accepted interviews: 12

Ranked programs: 15 (including some 6 year programs, mostly at the bottom)

List: Stanford, HSS, Harvard, UCLA, WashU, U of Washington, UC Davis

Match: Stanford

Very, very excited and surprised. Expected to end up at #2. Hope that everything worked out well for everyone. Anything is possible with hard work. Good luck.

I'll play...
Step I 236
Step II 225

mostly P/HP preclinical
all HP 3rd year except H in ortho and P in psych
Honored 3 ortho rotations 4th year
not AOA
4 research projects, 2 published at time of interviews

55 apps, offered 14 interviews, went on 12

ROL
1. OHSU
2. WashU
3. Cincinnati
4. Wake
5. Georgetown
6. Baylor
7. UNM
8. WVU
9. UVA
10. Temple
11. Penn State 5 yr
12. WVU 6 yr
13. UVA 6 yr
14. Penn State 6 yr
15. UT-SW

Matched at No. 1 OHSU, can't wait to move

SE state med school
227 step 1
223 step 2
3.2 GPA at application time
No pubs/ortho research
No AOA
Great letters of rec

applied to 38, offered 14, went on 10

ROL:
1. Campbell Clinic
2. Southern Illinois
3. UAB
4. Mizzou 5 year
5. Orlando
6. Mizzou 6 year
7. Mississippi
8. Ochsner
9. Tulane
10. LSU-NO
11. LSU-Shreveport

Did not go to West Virginia, UVA, VCU, or Wichita due to schedule conflicts.

Matched at Mizzou.

congrats to all of you guys! the seniors over here at my school are a MESS right now, just got back from celebrating with them!...do you guys minds posting where u did your aways and whether or not step 2 was on your app for us future applicants.

I loved reading these as a MS1-3. Hopefully, this post will give some hope to people.

Top 20 med school
Preclinical grades: half B's, half A's and B+'s
Clinical grades: 2A's, 1B (in surgery), 3B+'s (including IM)
Step 1: 227
Step 2: 238 (available early on)
did research, but only got abstracts
Rotations: Northwestern, UT Southwestern, UTMB (Galveston)

Offered 8 interviews: the 3 above, plus Maryland, WVU, Louisville, Texas Tech, and JPS
Interviewed at 6 because I did not want to be rushed out of my number 1 interview.

Matched at my number 1, very excited

My story:

Med school: A top medical school
Undergrad: A top undergrad university
Step 1: 233
Step 2: 234 taken before interviews, it helped
Preclinical (H/P/F): No honors
Clinical: Honors in OBgyn and Psych, Ortho subIs, "excellent" (one step down from honors) in most everything else. This pretty much equates to minimal to no honors 3rd year in the average orthopod's mind.
Research: One major basic science project resulting 2 pubs in Arthroscopy and J Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, one clinical study in undergrad resulting in 1 pub in Spine
Letters: strong letters (I think) from the Chair and PD of ortho at my institution, a very good letter from a well known orthopod from an away SubI, and a stellar letter from a gensurg PD at a lesser known hospital
AOA: not even close
Other: very active extracurriculars in sports and music

Applied to: 84 programs (holy sh*t! shotgun approach)
Interview offers: 15
Interviewed at: 12 (UCSF, Stanford, Columbia, Sinai, UChicago, Harbor UCLA, St Lukes Roosevelt, Loma Linda, Baylor, Case Western, Temple, UMDNJ)

Matched: Mt. Sinai

I'm so happy to have matched, period. I'm even more excited that I matched at Sinai, where I did a subI. I thought that Mt. Sinai had one of the best overall teaching experiences out there (a well rounded combo of didatics, OR, clinic) despite its lack of "big name" appeal. Great set of residents and attendings as well. I had hopes of going out to CA, but am pretty stoked to be in NYC. It was #4 on my list.

For those applying in ortho in the future: Enough cannot be said about the "personality factor." You can have great numbers and be an academic stud, but if you aren't a cool person that would be a great co-resident, you will have a difficult time matching. Doing a subI at a place you want to go is the best way to show the progam that you are a quality guy/gal, and this no doubt helped me match.

Well, here is the first DO posting that I have seen:

Went to DO school in MO
Top 15 out of 230 students first two years
Excellent clinical scores, 1 honors (can't have honors in electives so no ortho)
COMLEX 1: 664 (97th percentile)
COMLEX 2: 95th percentile (I know our scores are kinda foreign vs USMLE) made ERAS

Psi Sigma Alpha and Sigma Sigma Phi
No real research

Rotated at 5 interviewed at 5.

Matched No. 1 spot at Naval Medical Center Portsmouth in Portsmouth, VA

I'm game--
Middle of the road Medical School in NE

Preclinical: Mostly honors (90%)
3rd Year: All Honors

Step I: 240
Step II: 238 (wasn't in during interviews)

Jr. AOA

Research: One ACL project with no publications

Aways: UT-SW, JPS, home

Applied to 40+ schools, offered 21, went on 13: UTSW, JPS, Baylor, UT-HSC, UT-Houston, UArizona, UCI, NYU/HJD, Yale, UK, UMDNJ, St. Joe's, Georgetown

Matched No. 1 JPS

i'm a non-US citizen and a foreign medical grad from australia.

matched at university of maryland / shock trauma


bring it on.

I thought that I would post this here as well at rwbrhp29's request:

Just wanted to let everyone know that it IS possible to match with less than stellar board scores...
Medical School: middle tier western school
Step I: 214
Step II: 210 (released to all the programs I applied to, not sure why I did this)
AOA: hell no
Pubs: none, and minimal research
Honors: smattering of clinical honors
I managed to score some great Letters and did a ton of away rotations where I worked like a dog to make good impressions. I went to seven interviews and got my top choice! Congrats to everyone who got what they wanted.

The match saga comes to a close...

Undergrad- private school, 3.6/28, Division I athlete

Medical School- Home state school (37th in primary care, 45th in research if anyone cares)

Preclinical- H/HP/P system: All HP except for P in micro

Clinical-
3rd year: Honors in Peds, Medicine, Neuro, Ortho elective in musculoskeletal oncology; High pass in family medicine, psych, OB/GYN, Anesthesia; Pass in surgery

4th year- Honors on 2 Ortho aways, elective with private ortho guy, and anatomy elective; HP at my home ortho program and in ER

Top 25% of class overall

Step 1- 229
Step 2- 221 (after interviews)

Research- 3 sports med projects, 1 oncology case report
Pubs- poster presentation at AAOS next week but no publications yet, submitting 2-3 papers this month when I get them finished.

AOA- Negative GhostRider the pattern is full

Aways- UT-Memphis/Campbell Clinic, Mayo Clinic

LOR- went with the "more the better" approach. Had 7 in total: one from home musc-onc rotation, one cosigned by home program's PD and chairman (a great way to circumvent not knowing the chair very well, get someone who you worked closely with to write you a good letter, have the chair read and cosign it, and submit it as your chairman's letter), three from my two aways (one from editor-in-chief of JAAOS, another from UT-Memphis PD), two from private ortho docs, one that I shadowed in undergrad and one that I did research with. Way more than I needed, but assigned them regionally and by program type (i.e. Mayo letter to Midwest programs, Campbell Clinic letter to Southern program, private doc letters to community programs). Did I overanalyze this? Perhaps...

Applied to 51 programs. Offered 15 interviews. Turned down Hamot and Kansas due to conflicts with other interviews. Cancelled Orlando at end of interview season.

Went on 12 interviews and ranked in this order: UT-Memphis/Campbell Clinic, Medical College of Wisc., Mayo Clinic, Beaumont, Case Western, Cincinnati, Summa, IU, Medical University of Ohio, West Virginia, Atlanta Medical Center, Geisinger.

Matched at No. 1 UT-Memphis/Campbell Clinic!!! Would have been very happy anywhere in the top 5.

Extremely excited, Almost cried like a little girl when I got the letter. Ready to become a Southerner. I'm trying to incorporate y'all, sir, and ma'am into my vocabulary...maybe I'll have grits for breakfast.

I realize this is turning into a book, but here are my impressions of the programs I went to.

UT-Memphis- Obviously, this was my favorite. Very deep in all subspecialties, great conferences, residents are the best I found, operative training is outstanding. Most importantly, I saw their residents at conferences and they were so intelligent, confident, and well-spoken about Orthopaedics that I want to be like that in five years. PD Dr. Azar is a great guy. Support structure is great...they really take care of their people.

MCW- Very cool city. Hospital is all in one place in west suburb area with nice family oriented neighborhoods nearby. Really liked the residents and thought it was a group I'd fit in well with.

Mayo- Again, extremely well rounded and deep in all subspecialty areas. If you want to do joints, I think you'd be hard pressed to find a better place. Facilities are amazing. Teaching was awesome...their people leave there really knowing their stuff. Operative experience seems variable as many cases are very complex and over a resident's head. Fellows are not a problem, they have separate services and don't conflict with residents for cases (this criticism of Mayo is overplayed in my opinion). Endless research opportunities. Didn't get the same close-knit feel with the residents that I did other places.

Beaumont- The best community program I interviewed at. Was really surprised by the volume...there is much more surgery than the residents can cover. Amazing facilities. Not a fan of Detroit, but Royal Oak seemed nice. Ended up way higher on the list than I'd planned.

Case- Thought this was great training at a place that seems to have a lot of pride. I was turned off a bit by their mantra, "Where you train in Orthopaedics is who you are in Orthopaedics," that they repeated all day. I like a city with a cool downtown and thought downtown Cleveland that I saw was dumpy.

Cincy- Like the location and city. Seem to get really killed on their Peds and Trauma. Residents talked a lot about "getting killed during 2nd year" which sort of turned me off. I'm sure this happens everywhere, just seemed to be a point of emphasis that was sort of weird. Stern is a great program director. Their guys get great fellowships because of him.

Summa- Very efficient, well-run community program. PD was a cool guy, don't remember his last name because the resident I was with called him Scott (nice to be on a first-name basis with the chairman). Have 8+ Ortho-dedicated ORs every day with lots of volume. Don't want to live in Akron, neither does the wife.

IU- My home program. Lots of turnover right now, though I think Dr. Anglen, the new chair, will get it going again. Lost 3 peds guys and another trauma staff, which is a blow to the educational experience,but they just hired a foot and ankle guy, new peds guys, and are looking for a spine guy. Indy is awesome, very underrated as a city, housing is inexpensive. May be a very different program in a couple years.

MUO- decent program with nice people, don't want to live in Toledo. Ebraheim, their PD, is eccentric, but a real resident advocate.

WVU- program on the way up with Dr. Emery at the helm. Morgantown is a cool college town, but it's still in WV. Great if you like that part of the country and do a lot of outdoor activities.

AMC- decent community program, don't want to live in Atlanta. Lots of traffic and expensive.

Geisinger- decent community program, in the middle of freaking nowhere. Sweet moonlighting setup and nice lifestyle.

My advice to underclassmen: rotate where you think you want to go. PD at Campbell Clinic told me straight up that most of their residents are AOA and I'm not, but since I rotated there and did well, I'd get an interview and a serious look. Don't think I'd have matched or maybe even interviewed there without the rotation. Doesn't mean you can't match there if you're not AOA and don't rotate there, but obviously it's more of an uphill battle.
-Do research if you find something interesting, and know it cold. Everyone will ask about it and talk about it on interviews. Shows you have more interest in Ortho than the average applicant.
-Have fun! So many people post on here that are tired of the process. But it's really a fun challenge and if you enjoy yourself and get to know people, it can be a really enjoyable process.

Congrats to everybody, sorry about the long post, and if anyone else is going to UT-Memphis, see you in July!

I also enjoyed reading through these last year as a MS3, so here's my story.

Undergrad - state school

Medical school - mid tier state school

Preclinical - All honors (top 10%)

Clinical - Honored in all required courses and ortho sub I's

Step I - 268
Step II - 270 (available in Jan to ERAS)

Junior AOA

Research - submission to JBJS and undergrad research

Great LORs

Applied to 4 programs and got 4 interviews - Iowa, Mayo, Minnesota, Wisconsin. I have a family and my wife and I wanted to be near Minneapolis. All four of these programs are excellent and I would have been happy to train at any of them. I did an away at Mayo and was very impressed.

Matched at Mayo Clinic. Cant wait to begin the journey! Good luck to you all as you get ready to apply this summer/fall.

wow - applied to four programs. that takes some stones. I guess you can pull it off when you're an all-star; not recommended for most of us.