Post Interview Contact

So I guess this interpretation of "ranked to match" is a different interpretation than what abcd1234 mentioned earlier...meaning that just because you received a "ranked to match" phone call DOES NOT mean that you are guaranteed to match at that program, even if you ranked it #1? I guess this is what my question was earlier...is "ranked to match" meaning that if the program has say 4 positions, do they only call their top 4 people and say you are "ranked to match" or do they call 2X the number of people than they have residency positions, knowing that they typically need that number of people to fill their residency positions?

Let's say a program has 4 spots and normally goes to 12 applicants to get there. If you are ranked number 10 on the list this year, the program could call you and honestly say that based on previous years, you are "ranked to match". If this year they only go to number 9 to fill the 4 spots, you're SOL. They weren't lying when they said that you were ranked to match, but "ranked to match" is certainly not a guarantee. It sounds like Utah called the Top 5 applicants for 5 spots, so there it was a guarantee.

I'm guessing some programs only call the same number of applicants that they have positions. But I bet there are just as many programs that call more applicants than they have positions. We will never actually know which programs those are, unfortunately.

Can anyone enlighten us as to what the HSS email sent yesterday morning said please?

In case you missed it, here is the list of schools who have contacted applicants:

Utah
Rush
UMKC
HSS

I think applicants can still expect to hear from Pitt and Case. Others?

Looks like Mayo USED to contacts folks, not sure they do anymore (looking at last year's thread).

If I were an applicant reading this I wouldn't believe anyone saying they have heard from a program since interviews. Last year someone was on here saying they had heard our program had called them after interviews to say they were ranked to match and that was simply not true since our program does not make those phone calls. As far as the list of this year's supposed phone calls go, last year Utah was VERY clear during the interview day presentations that there was to be no post-interview contact, not from them and not from the applicants. So I'd be very surprised if they have now begun calling people after being so admitantly opposed to it last year. I'm only posting this because the posts last year regarding the program I'm now at made one of my classmates very nervous about his prospects to match here and guess what, we're both here and never received a phone call, neither did anyone else in our class.

I know this is a way for you guys to blow off the nervous energy while awaiting the big day, I certainly spent way more time on this site than I should have last year, just try not to get too worked up about anything that is posted on here. Best of luck to everyone.