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Thoughts on programs that interview all rotators?

#2023Feb 21

depends some places like UF and Emory that interview all their rotators have a good chance of matching there because they are very selective on who they pick and they have a good track record of matching rotators, also they don't have too many rotators - Conversely, programs like UConn who have a ton of rotators and interview all of them, you don't really know if you have a good shot, also based on tea on this spreadsheet there's nepotism rumors, research fellows, etc. so your chances at a program like that may be lower and can give applicants false hope

Feb 21
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anyone know about upmc?

Feb 21
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UF interviews most of their rotators but also interviews a significant amount of non-rotators, plus away/gold seem to weigh less post-interview there. Certainly better than a lot of other programs but there are programs that only interview internals and more heavily weigh away/gold/etc post-interview as well. ^ It's the best when a program is very selective with away rotators and then interviews them all because it means you already have a high shot at being ranked. Places that take a ton of rotators and intreview all as a courtesy = waste of time for everyone and waste of hope.

Feb 21
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what counts as a high number of away rotators? 20+? 30+?

Feb 21
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some programs take 6 aways per month so do with that what you will

Feb 21
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great bc they give you an interview! Not great if it doesn't correlate with true shot at a decent place on the rank list. But there's no true way to know and we will never know how the pie is made as applicants so whatever

Feb 21
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Reapplicant here, from what ive seen from my away rotations and who they matched: my experience, they definitely take at least 1 away rotator depending on number of spots the program has. If they have internals + away rotators with better stats or from better schools with decent personalities, might not go your way. if you are one of those rotators with great stats and they don't have too many internals then you're in a great place to possibly match there

Feb 21
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also depends on how the internals rank them - can't assume that all of the internals actually want to go there

Feb 21
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. on OP's question, what programs interview all rotators?

Feb 21
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Harbor-

Feb 21
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not true. would say it's more accurate to say that all applicants interviewed will have done an away rotation. similar to Kaiser LA

Feb 21
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where do we find number of away rotators a prgram takes per year?

Feb 21
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theres a sidebar on some of the VSLO apps that show how many they accept per month, and then from there you can roughly calculate

Feb 21
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Reapplicant here, from what ive seen from my away rotations and who they matched: my experience, they definitely take at least 1 away rotator depending on number of spots the program has. If they have internals + away rotators with better stats or from better schools with decent personalities, might not go your way. if you are one of those rotators with great stats and they don't have too many internals then you're in a great place to possibly match there

Mar 7
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also depends on how the internals rank them - can't assume that all of the internals actually want to go there

Mar 7
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Harbor-

Mar 7
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not true. would say it's more accurate to say that all applicants interviewed will have done an away rotation. similar to Kaiser LA

Mar 7
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theres a sidebar on some of the VSLO apps that show how many they accept per month, and then from there you can roughly calculate

Mar 7
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