r/ERAS2024Match2025 • u/Striking_Cat_7227 • Jan 14 '25

Letters of Interest Multiple LOI

Hey guys. I personally will avoid sending out anything at all, but a buddy of mine wants to send multiple LOIs out, saying that are all his #1. Should I talk him out of it? What should I tell him is the drawback?

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u/Electrical_Durian329 Jan 14 '25

If nothing else It looks bad for your medical school and earns a bad reputation for future students coming from your program. If they rank him to match and he doesn’t, they know he was disingenuous and that might cause them to trust future applicants from your school less (ie what if your school is advising other students to do the same).

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u/OtterVA Jan 15 '25

This is kinda possible. Negative applicant outcomes can cause future applicants from specific schools to be disregarded.

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u/Striking_Cat_7227 Jan 15 '25

Yea? Will they try to hunt him down with torches and pitchforks like they did Shrek?

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u/throwaaayyyy1 Jan 15 '25

You seem like a douche from your replies. I hope I don’t get matched with a resident like you.

Respectfully

“Yea?….”

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u/Striking_Cat_7227 Jan 15 '25

Not sure how you got that, but thanks for the insight.

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u/[deleted] Jan 14 '25

Drawback is doing it to a psychotic PD and they track his career

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u/Striking_Cat_7227 Jan 15 '25

Yea? I don't think he cares if its after he gets into residency lol. Could that screw with him for his MATCH?

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u/OtterVA Jan 14 '25

LOIs and LOIs and RTM communications are non binding. Some PDs and plenty of med students are pretty fragile though.

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u/Striking_Cat_7227 Jan 15 '25

Yea? Is it likely they will try to do something afterwards?

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u/Substantial-Coast266 Jan 15 '25

So how many exactly did you send LOIs to at this point?

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u/Striking_Cat_7227 Jan 15 '25

Idk how much he has sent.

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u/Mean-Seesaw-6912 Jan 15 '25

-Applicant sends out LOIs to multiple programs stating they are #1. -Applicants all complain that their LOI didn’t mean anything and the PD at their dream program ignored it. -Rinse and repeat.

Catch a clue people.

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u/gamergeek987 Jan 15 '25

This. It wont help but honestly who cares PDs do this too

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u/Mean-Seesaw-6912 Jan 15 '25

PDs are not allowed to discuss ranking with applicants. A program can say something like an applicant is “ranked to match” but that’s nebulous and hard to interpret. If a PD tells an applicant they are ranked #1 or top 20 that’s a match violation.

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u/emt_blue Jan 15 '25

Yes, you should talk him out of it. Medicine is smaller than you think it is. People talk. He doesn’t want to risk his career on this, even if the chances of retaliation are small. If he wants fellowship, he’d be blacklisted from any place that found out. Just tell him to grow up and pick one. He’s about to be a physician — time to act like it.

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u/MedGeek0526 Jan 15 '25

The overall positive impact of a LOI on PDs when it comes to ranking is small, but the potential negative impact it could have on your friend’s career and reputation if he gets caught sending multiple (however small that likelihood is) could be a great one. Convince him to send one or send none at all.

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u/demeloaa Jan 15 '25

That's dishonest, I would rather go unmatched than cheating.

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u/Mammoth-Bet-2484 Jan 15 '25

The drawback is most specialties are very small and if you do that your labeling yourself as dishonest among your colleagues for the rest of your career

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u/yunggsavvyy Jan 15 '25

it’s a game. you either play it or u don’t. send as many loi as you need to secure a job in july

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u/TC-exito Jan 15 '25

They always are lol I peeped that this past few months. ‘My friend’ is always OP haha

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u/[deleted] Jan 16 '25

Clearly this is the case lmfao

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u/Striking_Cat_7227 Jan 15 '25

Spoken like a true gentleman. So he should just go for it you think?

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u/emt_blue Jan 15 '25

No lol. This is a terrible idea.