Post-interview contact

[underpaid]

Back in mid-January, I got a somewhat personalized email from PD of SUNY upstate. Did not give any indication of ranking. Haven't heard whether other people received this or not. They were done interviewing at the time.

[Secondary Gain]

Wash U is going to send out an email letting applicants know what tier they are ranked in. They said it should go out sometime next week.

[orthoden]

Anyone heard from Mayo, USF, or GW? I know Mayo and USF have made calls in the recent past and GW says at interview day that they will call their top 4.

[bonethugz84]

I've heard that Mayo, Iowa, and Case have made calls all within the past week at some point to those that are "ranked to match"...

[sims]

Anyone heard from Mayo, USF, or GW? I know Mayo and USF have made calls in the recent past and GW says at interview day that they will call their top 4.

When you say "recent past" are you talking about this application cycle or last year? I thought Mayo said they weren't calling anyone this year? I know USF called people in past application cycles - would be interested to hear about this year...

[orthoden]

Anyone heard from Mayo, USF, or GW? I know Mayo and USF have made calls in the recent past and GW says at interview day that they will call their top 4.

When you say "recent past" are you talking about this application cycle or last year? I thought Mayo said they weren't calling anyone this year? I know USF called people in past application cycles - would be interested to hear about this year...

When I said recent past I meant past application cycles, I too had heard Mayo wasn't calling this year but guess I was mistaken. Also interested if USF is calling this year.

[CC2011]

I've heard that Mayo, Iowa, and Case have made calls all within the past week at some point to those that are "ranked to match"...

Hanssen volunteered to me at my interview that there would be no phone calls this year, not sure if that changed or not

[bonethugz84]

I just know through firsthand knowledge that Case, Iowa and Mayo have all made calls to at least some applicants. I do not know the specifics of what was said or promised -- only that these programs initiated contact. Take it for what it's worth.

[underpaid]

Do any of the CA programs contact applicants regarding their rank status?

[sims]

I received a voicemail a couple days ago from a chief resident at a program I interviewed at basically saying thanks for checking out their program and it was great to meet me and all that jazz and that they just wanted to answer any questions I have as I put my ROL together. I plan on calling back because I have some legit questions, but is this a common thing to happen?

On a somewhat related note I was watching the Superbowl with a friend that is applying to neurosurg and he says its common practice for PDs to sit down with the residents prior to sending in their ROLs and put all the applicants pics up on a screen and ask if anyone has heard from them - and if no one has heard from them it is assumed they're not as interested. I realize neurosurg is a smaller field than ortho but do any of you current residents do this kind of stuff at your program?

[tibula]

I received similar calls from 2 programs just to "check in" with me and see if i had any questions. Its hard to discern whether it meant anything at all. seemed generic tho

[orthoden]

I'm assuming everyone got this mass Pitt email today?

[dunkmaster]

Just heard Harvard sent out emails to their highly ranked; anyone able to validate this and/or know how many they send out??

[yanks7]

Did anyone hear anything from any of the smaller PA programs, like Einstein or Geisinger? Have they ever made contact in prior years?

[orthoden]

This whole thread was extremely quiet compared to previous years. Now that ROL's are in it would be nice if people who had contact earlier in the season would post now.