its weird that schools that took a lot of their own last year didn't seem to again this year? or is that just me? <- guess zoom format makes it safer to take home/away candidates < Look at Northwestern, basically their entire class are home students. I feel bad for the 15+ research years who wasted there time there expecting to be ranked LMAO < but like baylor houston had a shit ton of home students too but didn't take any of them...? but took all home students last year i think??? make it make sense < I think northwestern was trying to protect their match rate for derm by taking a few home students who didn't get many interviews or weren't competitive applicants. That's what happened at my home program so I'm assuming its the same for Northwestern <sometimes its just a numbers game... < why would they match not-that-competitive applicants instead of who they really want to protect their match rate (unless they just really like them as people)? do programs really care about their match rate? not arguing, just genuinely curious. I would pay to watch a tv show about the inner workings of PD's minds LOL < i really don't think they matched people who were weak LOL they probably honestly liked them the best < all of this is speculation can't say for sure it's one thing or another. That is, unless we know what interviews the other people got < Not true; i got highly ranked email and weren't home student < Highly ranked does not mean ranked to match. The distinction matters. < highly ranked doesn't mean jack most of the time lmao. Most of the people at NU RY understand that the chances of NU ranking them are low. Most get spots somewhere. <the super enlightened ones might not have ranekd NW high whatsoever. the corollary to a courtesy interview is that you give too many away and suddenly you cant rank all the people you gave interviews to which is why some programs dont do that (umiami) but yall dont want to hear these facts and rather go on spreadsheets to drag programs based on your opinion of how complex systems things should be run and this culture of dragging leads to less transparency to future generations of applicants