Stanford, CA
Applicant sentiment — from 150 anonymous posts, 2016–2027
6.2 / 10
What anonymous posters said
Anonymous posters frequently group this program among a small set of highly regarded dermatology residencies. Several described residents as happy and well supported with favorable quality of life and compensation, while some noted comparatively weaker derm surgery or Mohs training. Many posts also debated whether post-interview check-in or 'RTM' calls occurred, reflecting persistent rumor and uncertainty around recruitment communications.
AI-generated summary of opinions expressed in anonymous, unverified posts. It describes what posters wrote, not verified facts about this program. Based on these 150 posts · Updated Aug 2026 · Contest or respond to this entry · Takedown & right of reply
✅1. All of the hospitals are beautiful
❌1. I heard that their Peds Derm spot is guaranteed to whoever their current research fellow is, the nepotism runs deep. Good luck.
❌2. Most stressful interview day. No breaks between rooms. Rapid fire of very challenging questions and follow-ups. Felt very judged with every answer I gave. PD responded with rudeness after I asked a basic question.
💬1. I mean, it looks like Stanford is solid for giving spots to their research fellows. Recently gave a spot to an IMG that did a few years of dedicated research with them. I don't necessarily think that's a bad thing? Look at USC or UCLA with 99999 research fellows and none of them get serious consideration.
✅1. All of the hospitals are beautiful
❌1. I heard that their Peds Derm spot is guaranteed to whoever their current research fellow is, the nepotism runs deep. Good luck.
❌2. Most stressful interview day. No breaks between rooms. Rapid fire of very challenging questions and follow-ups. Felt very judged with every answer I gave. PD responded with rudeness after I asked a basic question.
💬1. well the shame is clearly not true as this year's peds match was not the research fellow +1. very organized interview day and responsive coordinator. > hated this interview day seemed like they were trying to see how you do under stress
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What is the best derm program for overall training (academics, diverse patient population, surgery, breadth of pathology)<NYU, UCSF, and Penn. Harvard and stanford are in the top 5 too but dont give you nearly as much diverse patient population or breadth of pathology
Stanford Rejection X 27
Stanford waitlist
Stanford x8
no stanford or Columbia yet, right?
Lol just found out Stanford no isn't even looking at step scores this cycle/ heard the same, they are equally weighing your twitter score and levels of BD energy
MORE DELETING GOING ON HERE REGARDING DERMTWITTER AND THE LADY FROM STANFORD WHO WE HAVE ESTABLISHED NEEDS TO TAKE A BREAK FROM TWEETING> KEEP DELETING IT AND I WILL POST IT EVERYWHERE< YAS! Also, people keep asking the posters with 22X if they are URMs and they keep deleting that too! Shouldn't we know if holistic review is actually in effect! We could tell the stanford doc to tweet about it!!!
For those of you looking at Stanford here's a cool discussion from topical with their PD https://topicalpod.libsyn.com/s2e19-how-to-be-well-fireside-chats-with-dr-kristin-nord
Now it's time to fill in the name & shame for real. x3
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!
Per Match List tab, does Harvard really have 11 spots (10 + 1 med/derm)??? And Stanford only 6?
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
Looking at the survey tab was a horrible mistake. Lots of people ranking my top programs highly as well :(
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 :))
Ugh omg can we please be adults and not randomly add 100 on the rank list tab
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.
Fill out the rank sheet properly. How can there be an unequal number of #1, #2 and #3? -- Trolls
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
I didn't get any RTM / post communication. Can we be honst with eachother? Did people get RTM calls and if so from where? Trying to manage my expectations here.
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
Hey sorry long time since visiting spreadsheet. Did any programs send out RTM calls this year?
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)
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