Stanford Health Care-CA

Knew it

Thanks for updating us! x3 |

Non-ERAS email

It's an individualized email though, so they're probably still sending out the invites.

Has anyone else received an invitation?

I know a real person who recieved an invite. It's happening!

Invite, external rotator x1

Anyone know if they send out multiple waves or just the one? The spreadsheet last cycle has 2 contact dates

these still going out?

seems like no updates for several hours, but maybe we'll see another wave!

Anyone know how likely it is to get off the Stanford waitlist?

:(

Phone call? Personalized or generic email?

phone call or email?

ERAS email

ugh waitlist.

Waitlisted as well. Anyone know how likely it is to get an invite off the waitlist here?

rejections incoming...

On that note, how likely to get an invite off waitlist at MCW?

damn. rotated here and thought I had a decent shot

Seriously? That's rough

What about the Stanford waitlist? x2

Can anyone confirm if the Mayo invites are still going out? I haven't heard either way

lol here we go again...

Can someone post the interview dates?

Does anyone know how the Mayo clinic does invites? Is it by region/last name/ etc?

I heard the same thing but did not receive a call. x3

Only Yale

UCSF

Yale def did (I got a call), but Stanford doesnt do RTM calls and UCSF hasnt done them yet from what i was told by the PC

Stanford did not make RTM calls. Above we were saying they may call all people they interview to ask for questions. haven't done it yet it seems though,

I got an explicit RTM call from Stanford

Stanford doesn't do RTM calls, stop lying to troll us.

Man there are some sadistic assholes on this spreadsheet. The thought of potentially being a co-resident with one of them is terrifying x2

Got a call from Stanford seeing if I had any additional questions. Don't think it was RTM. Anyone else get called?

<---trolling. Stanford didn't make calls.

Hrm, how are you sure whether they have or have not made calls?

<-- sweet. Was it also just for questions? |

I'm pretty sure this said UCSF ranked-to-match earlier?

No it said Stanford. That troll (anonymous gopher) changed it to other things like UCSF and BU and I kept changing it back. I'm the OP.

This same troll has been doing that for weeks. He changed one of my posts from "UCSF" to "Kentucky" a few weeks ago.

A user claimed that he/she received a RTM call from Stanford. You can choose to believe it or not believe it. OP will refrain from commenting further due to vicious attacks from the first time it was posted.

^ someone is deleting all the comments that were left on this (probably going along with trying to make people look bad intentionally).

If Mods can restore the comments, that'd be good.

Comments that are deleted seem to be deleted for good.. I'm not sure how this person is deleting the comments though as even the users w/ access don't have this function. If anyone has ideas, please chime in.

You don't need access to delete comments. If a comment is pending approval, you can edit, resolve, or delete it.

Can anyone delete (not resolve) my test comment? When you resolve, there's still a history of the comment having been there in the comment history.

Now the option to delete and resolve are gone...maybe it's because you're posting as someone who is signed in? It may be different when anonymous posters post. I can delete the anonymous comment below but not the comment from Anoni moose.

Yeah you're right. I guess the moral of the story is to sign in to comment even if you don't have access.

This was the exact issue with the above posts. The troll kept changing the comments to ridiculous things because you could just edit and change the anonymous users posts.

Stanford has NOT made RTM calls. Straight from the PD.

But have they made calls for questions?

I have not been a part of the above conversations at all, but I will say I did get a call which was simply a check-in for questions, but it was not a RTM call. I honestly wouldn't believe the above RTM stuff because people have been posting fake stuff about Stanford all cycle (including fake interview invites), so I suspect this is no different. For what it's worth, the above conversation started well before I got a check-in call, so I think that potentially makes it seem more likely to be fake.

So is your PD confirming the RTM call?

Also, to be clear because this situation was/is very confusing. I was the OP of the right side column only where the troll was changing everything. I am NOT the OP (I think it was "derm applicant" or something like that) who first wrote about the RTM call on the left side (perhaps my use of "OP" made things more confusing). I came in in support of him/her honestly, but I don't think it was clear that there were two of us contributing to the conversation...

No. I am not confirming the RTM call. I asked my PD about it and she asked where I had heard about it but neither confirmed nor denied it. On the spreadsheet, I saw a user post about the RTM, get trolled, and then respond with some disparaging comments about middle America, and I wanted to warn him/her before my PD or someone recognizes who he/she was. But sorry. I still don't know whether or not RTM calls went out.

Lol, repeating/rehashing what the OP(s?) said on here isn't really making them look good if the PDs were to see this now. Prob should delete this conversation too if previous stuff was too lol

Yes, please delete this section. I was trying to explain the situation to OP and whoever just posted asking to clarify, but please delete this now that it's all been settled.

It doesn't matter if this all stays here. The person who posted all the Stanford stuff probably wasn't even someone who interviewed at Stanford since it was untrue! Everyone here is a troll.

Nope, pretty sure it was a douchebag who wanted to brag about his/her RTM call.

Trying to be malicious to these OPs for posting about a call isn't helpful. Even if what they posted is true, Stanford made many calls and it's hard to know who wrote this, so leaving all this won't "trace" things to anyone. Plus, it's still very possible that some random person posted all this and not an interviewee

dont act dumb. people are gunners. shit is getting changed in an attempt to manipulate people. It has happened every year and it is hapening again this year. get over it. dont make decisions based on those comments. it is out of our control.

Someone is also deleting positive comments for UCSF and Northwestern...

Nothing here..

at least i'm not the only one lol

I've asked a couple of other people and most have not gotten a call! I think we're definitely in the majority (for better or worse)|

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anyone have thoughts on California schools?

expensive living AF

regardless of reputation, a lot of them are super desirable because of their location (and many of them are really good, too) and will be ranked highly by many applicants based on geography alone. Though all relatively highly competitive, UCSF and Stanford are some of the top programs in the nation (in many respects). USC is also a well-respected program with excellent clinical diversity given its county hospital and is a program that is known to give residents great autonomy

Are there any "weak" derm programs in CA? Maybe Loma Linda. Doesn't matter, everyone wants to live in California so they'll all be competitive for that reason alone.| The UC programs are all considered very competitive and strong programs. UCSF is considered a top 5 but has the reputation of being very malignant

From speaking to UCSF residents it actually sounded to me like changes have been made to address some of the issues residents were having - did not get the impression that it was a malignant environment but if someone has some inside info please share!

what was making the program malignant? just the sheer amount of work or interpersonal conflicts? I'm not concerned about the amount of work, but interpersonal conflicts would influence my ranking

Definitely hours and work volume. In the past, on previous spreadsheets, UCSF derm residents seemed pretty exhausted & a little late by the time they got to the applicant pre-interview dinner & it was quite noticeable. I don't believe any of it was interpersonal conflict related. I mean it's UCSF so maybe people just accepted it as is.

http://forums.studentdoctor.net/threads/preliminary-transitional-year-interview-thread-2016-2017.1222021/