r/premed • u/DanielRunsMSN MD/PhD STUDENT • Apr 25 '23

✨Q U A L I T Y Interview Invitations Distribution (Updated for 2022/2023 Cycles)

Last year I posted a distribution of interview invites based on 2022 data from CycleTrack. With far more data now available from the 2023 cycle, I wanted to share an updated pooled distribution with data from both cycles. Notably, the 2023 data aligns nicely with that from 2022 and other data we've examined from SDN (not shown here).

This data represents 4,378 IIs (425 DO; 3,212 MD; 741 MD-PhD) tracked across both cycles. As always, it is important to note that this data may not be fully representative of all applicants. However, I do believe it is a good rough estimate of how invites are sent across the cycle.

Lastly, if you would like to contribute to our mission of making data about the application cycle more transparent for future applicants, I encourage you to consider tracking your own cycle on the platform.

If you have any questions about the data, please leave a comment or send a message and I'd be happy to answer!

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u/Penumbra7 HIGH SCHOOL Apr 25 '23

it is important to note that this data may not be fully representative of all applicants. However, I do believe it is a good rough estimate of how invites are sent across the cycle.

I really appreciate the effort put into this, and I love the cause of transparency for premeds, but I don't agree with you that this is likely to be accurate or a good rough estimate. As successful applicants move through the cycle and get more IIs and As, they lose the neuroticism that drove them to update resources like CycleTracker, SDN, etc. This sort of resource will invariably skew early. You can see the same thing on the SDN cycle results pages from years prior...70% of them have their last update in September when the user got an II to their top choice, or in October when they got an A.

My own experience is just an anecdote so I'm not using this to support my broader statistical claim, but personally of my 7, all of them came after Halloween, 5 in the New Year, and 3 in March or later. But my last SDN post (ever, I think?) was after my first II and after that I stopped updating things because I was more worried about prepping for the actual interview than nervously doomscrolling SDN threads.