ruined chances?
By Guest on Wednesday, 13 September 2006
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My husband and I are couples matching. He wants to do ortho...he got 227 on Step 1 and today got his Step 2 and it was a 223. Is this a problem? His grades are okay...average the first two years and mostly A's during the third year. He's doing a lot of ortho at our home program and one away-rotation. He has no research and isn't AOA.

Bottom line - we are applying to approximately 50 programs. What are our chances of matching? Should we apply to more programs? BTW, I am applying to med/peds...not competitive. It's all about him right now!!
please see the thread "A perspective on the match process"

it will be hard (it's hard for most everyone regardless of stats) but doable. i would suggest that you both apply to 75+ programs and aim to match in the same city, if not hospital. if he's convinved that he's an orthopod through and through, then go for it. however, you both must recognize that there is a possibility that you might not end up in the same area or that he might not even match at all.

good luck!
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19 years ago
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Thanks for your advice. We have a lot of work ahead of us. Also, about the couples' match, our school explained to us that it is all down to the rank list. If one of us does not match at a program, we both don't match. If one of us is ranked by a program high on our list but the other isn't, we are skipped over. We don't match until there is a program that we have ranked at the same number that wants both of us. I hope that makes sense. I am just posting that to help calm anyone else's fears about couples' matching b/c we had plenty.
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