Rejections 2005-2006

My first dose of rapid-fire action. Kentucky right on the heels of MCG to shut me down.

rwbrhp29

I have an informal survey to conduct. I was rejected from Arkansas last night, and kentucky.....both of the rejection emails made comments about despite haveing a very competitive/strong application they were not able to grant me an interview....

so my question is do places have different rejection emails they send people.....it wouldn't seem like everyone's rejection email would say "Congradulations on being such a strong candidate" ----so do places have diffecent levels of rejection emails....or do they say that to everyone to reduce the suicide/alcoholism rate amoung med students applying into ortho

I am taking step 2 tomorrow....so hope nothing comes my way.....might have to pay some homeless guy to check my email every 2 minutes...

PS...if i offened anyone with earlier posts I am sorry......I am talking to the guy above me and #9

kentucky and med college of georgia via eras.......NO and NO, did I mention NO, hey how about a little NO.

perpetualp,
I am totaly with you wondering the same thing. My rejection from bu said my application was "strong", my rejection from harvard said "many outstanding applications, like yours..."
I wonder if I would have gotten the same rejection with a 200 step 1 and bottom quintile of my class.
I am actually thinking of calling one of the programs and asking them just for curiosity, can't hurt, they already rejected me.
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But would it be encouraging to know that you were barely rejected or maybe more painful?
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UC Davis hates me.

usc today....0-6 in chitown/ lala land and miami......ouch!!!!....i see my twenties fading away...

Called Stanford the other day -- All done with the invites.


For those of you with tons of time on your hands that saw this post elsewhere on this site earlier, I apologize for the redundancy. I'm kinda slow, still figuring this website out.

priapism and dawg,
This question has been haunting me since I began the morning ritual of checking my email for rejection letters about a month ago. If I were really such a strong candidate, then you would have interviewed me, wouldn't you? In order to shed light on this subject, I will quote today's rejection (davis) in the minds of the writers:

"Dear Applicant:

Your application for a residency position in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of California Davis has been reviewed because for some reason our staff neglected to notice your pitifully low step 1 score and direct it to the garbage immediately. Although you are a very competitive applicant for a family medicine residency, we are unable to extend an invitation to interview in a field that actualy requires you to work during medical school.

Thank you for your interest in our program, reading your application gave us the kind of laugh we really need this time of year! Please accept our best wishes for your continued education in the specialty of Orthopaedic Surgery, to provide our residents the opportunity to learn revision procedures.

Sincerely,

UCD

p.s. the "D" stands for "Denied!"

Miami rejection. As if we didn't know by now!
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Penn regrets that I wasted my time by applying to them because I didn't go to Harvard et. al.

I am loving the sarcasm...I just finished step2 --hopefully thats the last time I have to think about all the ways a vagina can bleed or what a 75 year old woman's uterus should look like.....
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This experience has been difficult and trying....and I have learned that if your from the midwest....it dosent matter what kind of scores/grades/letters u have....if your school dosent have an "ivy" in it you get tossed into the community college stack of files....

I wish I knew this I could have saved a few hundred bucks and bought a lot of beer....so if any third year med students are reading this.....just apply to all the midwest places get interviews and save all the application money you would have spent on applying to the east coast schools and throw yourself one hell of a bash when you match......
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Colorado, Duke, and Penn all told me to go take a walk on the brown side.

hey sicklecellphallus

same thing applies to non-ivy eastcosters men.....i dont think i got any interviews from the mid west........unless u count grad rapids and the hford.

newyz miami officially ended my dreams of repopulating miami..... with cuban chics....

i agree the politics of this are wack. I am AOA, 250 good med school plenty of research and i am from the midwest trying to get out. Not a single NE school has shown me love. But the midwest loves me. looks like im stuck for 5 more yrs

I think you guys are discouraging future applicants. Its really not that bad; just look at the lists of residents at any NE school and you'll find plenty of people from non-Ivy's. I suspect it has less to do with politics but rather w/ programs trying to guess at who is more likely to end up there. So when a NE program looks at a mid-west applicant who has grown up in the midwest and never been to the coast they may think that this applicant is more likely to rank programs in the midwest higher because its closer to home etc. Same for the new yorker who has never left the city - why would a program in the midwest think they could snag a competetive applicant away from Manhattan? So if you're from midwest and want to go to east coast, show it - try to do some rotations there, personalize your personal statement, etc.

I also think that it varies with the faculty of each program. I would guess that if you apply to a program where an influential faculty member (chairman, or program director, etc) went to your medschool or did a residency at your institution your chances probably increase. Unfortunately, people tend to stay in the same geographic area, hence the discrepancy in interview offers.

If our friendly residency coordinator is reading this, maybe they could offer some advice on this.

Tufts hates me, alot
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Yes Tufts hates me. too.... They suggested that next time I apply please do not send in a full body shot in profile showing my priapism....
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In regards to previous comments made regarding the interview selection process. I do not believe it matters where you go to medical school, what your grades/board scores/AOA status are; or what your letters say. If you are a qualified candidate for an orthopaedic residency, ie. you are not a dumbass then you probably will get interviews if you apply to enough programs.

I am not AOA, not 250 and not an ivy league student. However, I got interviews across the midwest, east coast and south. I didn't apply anywhere else. A classmate of mine who has slightly better numbers did apply all over and has interviews at all of the top programs in the country. Neither of us are ivy leaguers. Yet he didn't get interviews at some of the places that I did and his numbers are good enough for Wash U/Iowa/Mayo etc.

None of it makes since. The point is that programs have to guess not only on who will be good residents but also on who will actually rank them high enough to fill their spots.

If you are a up and coming M3 interested in ortho, I agree with priapism in that you should save as much money for drinking but don't be discouraged from applying to different regions.

JackDanielsIfYouPlease

I have gotten acceptances at some places and rejections from some places. With both coming from strong academic and smaller community programs. I got an interview at one of my home state institutions and not at the other. Got an interview at Case, Einstein Phily, & HSS, but not Harvard or Miami. This is a game that none of us can predict. Doesn't ease the frustration, but it is what it is. The interesting part about it all is that we were all warned by our predecessors that this would be a crazy and unpredictable game. Yet, most of us, including myself at times are completely at awe. LOL. It is kind of funny. Or maybe I just laugh to keep from cursing.

By the way, I am not the traditional ortho candidate. Take that as you wish and how I am sure some of you will take it and you will sit at home wondering why myself or another person who is not 260 and God's to the ortho world got interviews in the 1st place.

Obviously this is like rolling dice. Lol. Just humor perspective. Take nothing personally. Good luck to all and to all a good night.
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Before people lose their minds the schools I mentioned in the interview versus non-interview offers were strictly used to make a point of how the game is so unpredictable. I have not received final notices from all those programs. Specifically HSS. I had to say that as I do not want to spread incorrect information and cause any of us any undo and un-needed stress. Accept my apologize if I was too late in preventing either.

Peace,