Applied to Orthopedic Surgery and 0 interviews

I am in the same situation man. You are not alone. Let's hope things start picking up for us this week.

Be patient. I didn't get my first interview until the beginning of December. All you need are a few interviews. It's too early to get in a panic.

Thanks for your response, definitely alleviates some of the anxiety.

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Hey man thanks for sharing. I'm going to keep my fingers crossed that stuff gets moving soon.

Thanks for sharing guys. Just wanted to throw my hat into there.
Step 1: 240s
Step 2: 250s
No AOA
Honors in all 3rd year clerkships
Couple research projects - none are published

Applied to over 80. Only offered 5 interviews with 3 from aways. Looking pretty bleak as everyone else I know has ~10.

I hear ya. I'm in the same boat.
250s step I
260s step II
no AOA
all A's 3rd year
one non-ortho pub

I'm only getting interviews from smaller programs most of whom I'd never heard of prior to application. Even programs in my region seem uninterested. Not how I envisioned this going. The denials are flying in this week.

Good luck my friends...

Hey fellas. I appreciate your posts. I hope that we can get a positive vibe this week

It's quite a rude awakening. Take it from a guy who matched on the second time around.
Look who's posting on this thread, folks with the same high scores. Of course everyone has those scores, otherwise theyd be wasting their time applying to Orthopaedics. And since there are a limited number of Ortho spots, this is inevitable.

This is certainly a field with a lot of people coming out of the wood works and wanting to do Ortho with promises of being "cool" and wealth. And so you have Georgetown and Jefferson with 20+ applicants per year which totally ruins it for those who Orthopaedics was a dream for as long as they remember.

Not trying to be a Debbie downer, I just know this feeling having lived it. You have to prepare yourself for what your next move is going to be and how you're gonna make it happen and become an Orthopod.

Feel free to PM if you have any specific questions
Good luck this season

On the struggle bus as well

238 step I
250s step II
no AOA, top quartile
2/3 Honors, 1/3 HP 3rd year
7 ortho publications (3 1st author)

Applied: 75
Interviews: 4
Rejections: more than I care to count

Step I: 242
Step II: Pending
No AOA (Top Quartile)
Top 20 School
2 Uro papers; 1 Ortho paper

Applied: 70
Interviews: 2 (1 from away)
Rejections 20

Definitely not how I saw this going...

Hey guys. Hang in there. I was in this exact same spot last year but the second half of the interview invites should be coming out after thanksgiving. Felt like I got them in two waves: some early interviews followed but a bunch of rejections and then another wave in the week or two after Thanksgiving so there is still plenty of time to get up to that 10 or 12 interview sweet spot where your chance of matching is around 90%. Some spots will start to open up now that the crazy competitive applicants have gotten their 30 invites and will start declining interviews because there just simply aren't enough interview dates to go on that many interviews without conflicts.

Also keep in mind, if you applied to 80 programs and are hoping for 15ish interviews that is 65 rejections, 65. So you have to keep that in perspective when you are getting a bunch of rejections, its inevitable based on the sheer amount of applications you sent. Remembering that kind of helped me stay sane when waves of rejections were coming in.

And this isn't to dog anybody in this thread but for future applicants this thread can show you how important AOA can be in this process. Most of these guys have competitive scores for ortho but not being AOA may be hurting a bit. All I am saying is that people will tell you pre-clinical grades don't matter but they will for AOA and for class rank. AOA is certainly not the end all be all of ortho interviews and isn't a requirement by any means but if you check out charting outcomes in the match for 2014 something like everyone that was AOA matched except for like 4 people. AOA obviously isn't entirely within your control and some schools have a convoluted way of doing it, but it can be a big advantage to have during interview season.

Feel free to PM with any questions, I'll be in and out.

Figured I'd chime in as I thought I'd be rolling in interview invites at this point, however this is not the case and this has been a very humbling experience.

Med school: West coast
Step 1: 260s
Step 2: 250s
Pre-clinical: P/NP
3rd year: 5/6 honors with P in family medicine
Research: ortho clinical research since MS1, 1x 1st author pub in high impact journal
AOA: nope.

Interviews so far: 2 out of state, 5 in state (2x from aways, 1 home)

And a buttload of rejections. Hopefully things will turn around for all of us the next few weeks.

Definitely humbling.

MD/PhD (Rehabilitation science)

School: Texas
Step 1: 250s
Step 2: pending
Pre clinicals: HP
Clinicals: HP
Research: tons of meetings, 3x first author ortho papers, 1x second author ortho with 2 others pending and 2 yet to be written
AOA: No
Applied: 60

Interviews: 7: 1x away rotation (one away hasn't released interviews), 4x in state (1x home)


Probably 20-30 rejections. Seems like it's a rough year