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Interviews offered vs. interviews scheduled and other stats

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22 years 8 months ago - 22 years 8 months ago #26319 by masshole
"Dear program director, thank you for offering me an oppurtunity to interview for a residency position. Unfortunatly, due to a scheduling conflict I will be unable to attend."

I figured I'd start a thread comparing # of interview invites to # of interviews that we can actually schedule along with a few other things. So, here are my stats as of right now:

applications- 54
Invites - 23
rejections - 13
still waiting on the rest - lets go New York and Chicago, what's the hold up?
interviews currently scheduled: 11 (yup, that's <50%, how much does this suck!!! Why does everybody want to interview on 12/10 and 12/17?)

So, I've had to decline or cancel more then 1/2 of my interview offers, which is slightly less maddening than checking my email 10 times a day waiting to hear from yet another program that will either reject me or offer me an interview on January 10th. But I'm not bitter. How is everybody else doing?

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22 years 8 months ago - 22 years 8 months ago #4014 by
Replied by on topic yo ass - I mean
yo ass - I mean masshole,

I think most of us are having similar issues -

I applied to 34
have been offered 15 thus far
and have to cancel 3

Still waiting to hear from 10 more, I think

So I have not been as screwed by the 1/10, 1/17 etc dates as you, but I would have loved to attend some that overlap.

Oh well, I guess you can't complain about being offered too many interviews. The more you are offered, even if you can't attend them, the more likely you are to match!

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22 years 8 months ago - 22 years 8 months ago #4018 by
Applied 30
Invitations 19
Rejections 6
Scheduled 13 (probably staying at that)

1/10 and 1/17 have been very popular dates for me as well, but I would much rather have that problem than not enough offers!
Cheers...

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