re: Calling MD's/Med Students

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What there isn't an algorithm for is how programs choose to rank people and why. Human factor. You'll never understand it.

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This is probably right. I heard so many stories of people having program directors tell them they wanted them at their program and were ranking the candidate highly only to have them drop to their 5th choice on the rank list. I know people with step scores way higher than me and great evals and extracurriculars (like head of the Texas student branch of the AMA or some shite) who only got a few interviews in the specialty I matched into and ended up matching into something else. None of this makes sense to me. I used to think that we had some say in where we end up but the process has made me pessimistic