am I going to match?

I am afraid that I am not going to match. So far I only have a couple of interviews while I applied to 40 programs. My step I is 250, AOA. I did not apply to any community programs and i think i applied to too many competitive programs. Did I make a mistake? Should I have applied to more programs?

Hang in there. I'm in a similar situation. It's frustrating and there's not a whole lot to do but wait and see how things play out. Don't second guess yourself at this point, the whole process can be random and invites/rejections can be seemingly arbitrary.

yea I guess that's about the only thing I could do besides checking my email 10000000 times a day. I knew the match was stressful but I didn't realize it is this stressful.

yea I guess that's about the only thing I could do besides checking my email 10000000 times a day. I knew the match was stressful but I didn't realize it is this stressful.

Second this quote!!!

I am afraid that I am not going to match. So far I only have a couple of interviews while I applied to 40 programs. My step I is 250, AOA. I did not apply to any community programs and i think i applied to too many competitive programs. Did I make a mistake? Should I have applied to more programs?

I know what you mean- I am 248, AOA, research, etc.. and applied to 58 programs. While applying, I think I was too selective in choosing programs and feel I should have gone for more. At this point, I only have 2 interviews.

There was a post where someone pointed out something like out of 169 AOA applicants last year, 160+ matched and ~90% of persons with >240 matched. This gives me hope and I am trying my hardest not to lose sleep.

Good luck, I feel for you!

Hey guys,

I didn’t match last year, so maybe I’m not the best example. However, I applied to 32 programs last year and at this point I had only received 3 interview offers (one of which was at my home program) and something like 8 or 9 rejections. I ended up with a total of 12 interview offers, of which I went on 10. All were at strong programs. My point is that it’s still too early in the process to start freaking out…there’s still plenty of time to start racking up some more interviews. And in the end it doesn’t matter how many interviews you get…you just need that one that you really kick ass on.

My advice is to take a break from Orthogate for a while. People posting on here are more likely to be the people out there who feel pretty good because they’ve gotten a lot of offers (no offense to those people of course). There are plenty of people out there in your positions…they’re just not as vocal on these forums.