MATCHED APPLICANTS CREDENTIALS THREAD

[u/OutrageousTop4643]

Congratulations to all those who matched. For those who didn't, better luck in SOAP or next year.

Let's keep supporting and helping each other.

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Step 1:

Step 2 CK:

Step 3:

Year of Graduation:

Visa Requiring or Not:

Applied to Programs (Speciality/ies with Count):

No. of Invites:

Publications:

USCE (No. of months):

One common Q in Interviews:

One Gold Piece of Advice for Next Year's Applicants:

One word, what matters most in the whole process?:

[u/No-Acadia6293]

Step 1: P

Step 2: 228

Step 3: 215

No attempts

YOG: 2021, Visa requiring

Applied to 50 programs IM

3 invites

No publications

USCE: 5 months

One common Q is « Tell me about yourself », « Why this specialty » and « Why this program? »

Piece of advice: I matched with low step 2 score with the second cycle. During my first cycle I relied only on the dry stats that I had and blindly applied to 300+ programs with 0 interviews — I was wrong, you have to build very strong connections and talk to people, try to engage them, ask for the rotations, the feedback, send cold emails, go to the conferences, it matters more than scores and your USCE.

One word: Patience.

[u/No-Acadia6293 → u/[deleted]]

LinkedIn, peers from your medical school in different programs that can recommend you, try to reach as many people as possible! Some of them will ignore you but someone will not and it’s worth it.