What applicants said about Stanford Health Care-CA in the 2020 cycle

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Hi folks! My name is YJ Kim; I've met some of you on the interview trail. For those of you who didn't match, I am so sorry. I wanted to plug in this research position for my amazing research mentor, Dr. Kavita Sarin, who is looking for an experienced clinical research coordinator to help run trials in skin cancer and medical dermatology. Send CV to Ksarin@stanford.edu. I have nothing but great things to say about her!

could anyone clarify the number of spots Harvard has??????????????

Stanford has 10 this year

Feel free to change the number of spots on the match list if you know the numbers

it's derm. i've made peace with going anywhere on my list

< same :( / same as well, everyone loves the same 15 to 20 programs :( there goes my match to somewhere I care about

on the opposite end, looking at the list stressed me out because places I ranked high others didn't and places I ranked low others ranked high. Makes me wonder if I messed up my ROL x2

Its not really a surprise that people are ranking places like Harvard, Penn, Stanford, UCSF, etc. highly...

mrw no one is ranking my #1 as #1 or #2, which means i might match there and i would be very happy :))

I know at least 104 other friends that ranked KCUMB-GME Consortium #1 with me / y'all are the worst sometimes // thank you to whoever fixed it

< someone deleted the #1 ranks for UCSF. What was it last? <I think it was the same as Stanford, so I made it 5

agreed

<Get it together people!

Yeah can we please stop being so uncool now that ranks are in and any of your motivations to be a troll are gone! honestly, it's probably not us. more likely to be the program itself...<why would they even care, I'm sure they have more important things to do

um, we live for this juicy shit too

LOL @ a program being petty enough to come in and change it to 100 ppl ranked it 1

not that one

<hilarious how there are 20 more 1st ranks than 2nd and 3rd. I guess its all those people that only got one interview and it happened to be Stanfrod, Harvard or another top program. smh. I'm losing faith in my future colleagues...

I highly doubt that. People are probably just not filling in their top 2 and 3 bc they're mostly concerned with getting their number 1. I initially only filled out 1 and 2 out of laziness. Not sure if your comment was a joke or not... but most of those people have more than 3 interviews. <it was sarcasm

ah, very dry.

i guess fuck anyone who doesn't have 3 interviews lol

good point. that was insensitive

rank #3 > rank #2 still doesn't make sense though also lmfao at the predominance of respondents ranked ivies first, so there's obviously a bias here

LOL

unequal number, because people adding to it. Stanford just jumped 4 up in like 15 minutes // ha, Harvard just did it in short period too, smh

Very competitive applicant with a lot of interviews: I got 0 RTM calls or emails << Interviewed at 14 got 1 email<<also very competitive applicant with 4/5 top interviews and 25+ interview offers and 0 RTM calls or emails as well, though a few "hints" from my home program when talking to the PD there. << my friend got 2 RTM calls

I also had over 25 interview offers and not RTM. I think only 1-2 places did it this year and who knows how many they gave.

Thanks feeing better.

Stanford // 11 interviews 1RTM call

people won't post because they are supposed to be kept private.

<I would search through the sheet. A few of the RTM posts seemed slightly fake, but it seems like a few (less than 5) may have (e.g. Stanford)

Seems like the best of both worlds. Incredible program and training and as far as reputation goes, it is very high up there. Cornell is an Ivy League name which is super reputable. Is it Harvard or Stanford, no, but I'd argue it's only the next tier down as far as prestige goes

<I don't have an answer but dont forget reputation is an extrinsic measure that doesn't tell you much. It is also highly contentious as this sheet has shown over the past months. Clinics, patient population, speciality exposure, fellowship match, research can all be considered individually according to what matters to you. If rep matters though you can factor that in, but again it is super contentious, mostly research based, and seems made up half the time (aka loudest ppl on google sheet determine the accepted rep)

sounds suspect to me if there was only 1 person. Wonder what these ppl get out of doing fake RTM? maybe they think the rest of us will rank these places lower?

Unfortunately its near impossible to interpret RTM calls on this spreadsheet

even when it says x2 or x3 it could be a random fake post from 1 person

Exactly

Yale might not do R2M but they are known to make it very clear that they want you so if there's been no correspondence, that's definitely a sign - also Stanford and Penn has indeed sent out calls

Yale won't get everyone they want, so don't worry if there is no correspondence from any of these programs

If a place has sent out RTM calls and you didn't get one... would it be unusual for you to still match there? x2 << not impossible, but your chances are much lower

<Not really. The applicants who are getting r2m calls at these locations are getting r2m calls from all the others that do them as well, and everyone can only go to one program.

Stanford, Yale, MCW

MCW wasn't an RTM call based on what was written 9-10 rows below here << do we think yale actually did?

A few programs have. It really doesn't matter though - rank in order of which programs you want to attend.

I agree it shouldn't change ranking but I do think it's reasonable to want to know which have sent them

Yale; MCW; stanford

Wash U

<we're all these through the derm departments?

NYU

I'd like to give a nod to the University of Missouri for the pizza at lunch. Bahn Mi pizza was delicious

Henry Ford for the best snacks. Dried fruit, chocolate covered (dont remember what), and Rx bars

tx

Miami. That Cuban food was so good

I love this town, the people, the food - pork sandwiches - my favorite ... but tonight I'm hungry for something different

UCSFx2 gotta love that sushi and ice cream sandwich combo

Kaiser lunch had bomb build your own bibimbap

TX A&M had chick fil a sandwiches so them for sure

Yale "foods of New Haven" was bomb x 2

The Mexican food at Stanford + the mediterranean food at stanford

Dartmouth pre-fixe farm to table dinner the night before

Most rankings are based on research output is my understanding

faculty turn over at ucla is an issue -- regardless still one of the best programs in the country. Both are powerhouse programs

really? Both powerhouses?

people on this sheet throw around "one of the best in the country" and "powerhouse" and the phrase "hands down" like its candy on Halloween x2; "powerhouse? powerhouse? we got UCSF and Stanford crushing it on the west coast, and about 20 stronger programs than UCSD and UCLA, and ya'll want to talk about powerhouse?"

Don't think you can go wrong with either. For me it would come down to am I an LA person or San Diego person.

Must be nice

<-- with the chair? this seems like something the program director would do, not the chair.

Last year it was the PD, so this post is clearly a lie <If I my RTM was from the PD and not the chair, is it still worth the same

Can confirm, not a lie

Anyone who got a RTM then announced it on a public forum likely was promptly removed from the list. Consider it a test of character

< Can also confirm its not a lie, nor were we really sworn to secrecy lol

CONGRATULATIONS to those who got RTM calls from Stanford! My friend last year also received one and had a convo with the chair so this is not a lie.

Stanford's was also pretty solid <Most beautiful campus on the planet

UCSD. Straight to the shores/cove x2

The Wake bus tour with Dr Feldman was awesome! We even stopped for delicious BBQ. Second time i type this because felt the need to delete my comment

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