10-10-2009, 05:32 AM
Many programs still practice the first come first serve policy in terms of allocating the interview invitations. However, if they feel like the quality of applicants is not to their satisfaction, they save some interview slots for those who applied late. Those programs tend to be community programs with th exception odf some of the university IMG-dominated programs like Wayne State University. THey are generally very much score-oriented in terms of the selection process. I personally find those programs of less quality.
THe better quality programs are not in hurry to fill their interview slots, they usually go to the match, often community prorgams AMG dominated or university programs.
Some of them even wait till Nov 1st when the dean's letters are releasd to start calling applicants. They tend to call IMGs late because they want to see how many AMG applications they gonna get and what kind of AMG they gonna get. Based on that they make a decision to call a certain number of IMGs. Ironically, their selection process is not heavily based on scores but things like green card, location (for ex if you live in Oklahoma city, you may be more likely to get an IV in Oklahoma University), scores still count but to lesser extent.
You will be surprised to see that IVs cont to flow all the way till Dec and sometimes even Jan.
Why? you may still receive IVs because those programs in category 1 gave away prematches and candidates cancelled their interviews.
You may even receive IVs from high quality programs in Dec, because they have made enough calculations in regards to how their match is going to go with AMGs based on the type of applications they receive, and decided to call some IMGs to fill the remaining spots.
I remember in my program, when applications were coming, they will start predicting how many AMGs may match with them. If they had 6 medical students applying from the same university. They could know how many are truly interested in matching with them. If they ended up with 4 truly interested, they would look among those coming from out of town and see who has ties may be genuinely interested. If one had his fiance in town and wanted to stay there, he was added in the most likely potentially satying candidate. Based on the number really wanting to stay, they would add may be 2-3 that could end up there just randomly. Usually they would be left with 2 to 8 slots that they should prepare to fill and would decide to interview a certain number of IMGs 5 or 6 for 2 slots or 20 for 8 according to their prediction. I saw them send invitations to IMGs till Jan because based on initial IVs they felt like the ones they got were not a good fit and needed to interview more.
So what I am saying here is that you need to keep fighting till the end. Those receiving IVs in Jan may even be more likely to match in university programs if they interview well.
Dr. Belibi
THe better quality programs are not in hurry to fill their interview slots, they usually go to the match, often community prorgams AMG dominated or university programs.
Some of them even wait till Nov 1st when the dean's letters are releasd to start calling applicants. They tend to call IMGs late because they want to see how many AMG applications they gonna get and what kind of AMG they gonna get. Based on that they make a decision to call a certain number of IMGs. Ironically, their selection process is not heavily based on scores but things like green card, location (for ex if you live in Oklahoma city, you may be more likely to get an IV in Oklahoma University), scores still count but to lesser extent.
You will be surprised to see that IVs cont to flow all the way till Dec and sometimes even Jan.
Why? you may still receive IVs because those programs in category 1 gave away prematches and candidates cancelled their interviews.
You may even receive IVs from high quality programs in Dec, because they have made enough calculations in regards to how their match is going to go with AMGs based on the type of applications they receive, and decided to call some IMGs to fill the remaining spots.
I remember in my program, when applications were coming, they will start predicting how many AMGs may match with them. If they had 6 medical students applying from the same university. They could know how many are truly interested in matching with them. If they ended up with 4 truly interested, they would look among those coming from out of town and see who has ties may be genuinely interested. If one had his fiance in town and wanted to stay there, he was added in the most likely potentially satying candidate. Based on the number really wanting to stay, they would add may be 2-3 that could end up there just randomly. Usually they would be left with 2 to 8 slots that they should prepare to fill and would decide to interview a certain number of IMGs 5 or 6 for 2 slots or 20 for 8 according to their prediction. I saw them send invitations to IMGs till Jan because based on initial IVs they felt like the ones they got were not a good fit and needed to interview more.
So what I am saying here is that you need to keep fighting till the end. Those receiving IVs in Jan may even be more likely to match in university programs if they interview well.
Dr. Belibi
and good!