After you have done everything in your power to match, the final
decision is completely out of your hands. Did the programs which interviewed
you rank you; did they rank you high enough; will you match? Also, if you do
match will you match at your first choice, second, or third etc. The
uncertainty of the match is driving me crazy.
To deal with this same uncertainty, people look at the
probability of matching based on the number of interviews they had. I’m not
sure how true this is but I saw somewhere that if you get 12 interviews you
will have a 90% chance of matching. Consequently, if they received that number
of interviews they feel safe. Whereas those that got fewer interviews feel like
they have less of a chance. I do not ascribe to this method.
These are just numbers. Yes it might be true that a certain
number of interviews means you have a higher likelihood of matching merely
because out of those 12 there is surely one person that will like you. But at
the same time if you do not interview well all the programs could rank you very
low or not a all. I personally know people that matched with just 1-2
interviews. I have also heard people that got greater than 10 interviews not
matching. Consequently, the safe zone is not in the number of interviews.
I feel like the best thing that I did for myself is to
prepare well for each interview. Do my very best at each interview to show them
who I really am as a person- my strengths and my flaws with how I am working on
them. Knowing that I did my best I can simply sit back and watch the chips fall
where they will.
If you did your best, presenting yourself very well to
residency programs then whether you have a lot of interviews or only a few
interviews I want you to know that you have done your part. What’s left is the unveiling
that will take place on Match Day, March 13th 2017.
I will be keeping busy tutoring for CS, going to clinic and
binge watching different tv series. Medici Masters of Florence is awesome.
Thank me later. But, but, but, but… even with all of this I know that
uncertainty will still occasionally creep through occasionally, and that is
fine too.
12 days left till March 13th, 2017.
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