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Does anyone want to switch UConn dates--have mid Sep to Oct looking to switch to July-Aug or Aug-Sept
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2025–2026 Derm
5 entries❌1. Very evident that this is a nepotism heavy program. They haven't taken their RY fellows in the past, so the program has a lot of pressure to match them. Highly favor PhD applicants, especially those from home, as you can tell from their resident roster that has 1 PhD every single year. The program coordinator was passive aggressive at times, and they handed out way too many away rotations when they knew from the beginning of the cycle who their picks were. This was evident because the interview attestation form was given out super late near the end of the cycle in February when most programs had you sign it before the interview day. No socials either, which is very rare for dermatology interviews that don't have second looks.
❌2. I enjoyed rotating here, but it's 100% a rotation mill. Sure, you'll get an interview from your rotation, but as many others have said on this spreadsheet UConn already knows who they want before interviewing. Don't waste your time if you're not a Quinnipac/UConn student, UConn research fellow, family friends with the program coordinator, or married to one of the residents
❌3. Unfortunately the rumors from the 2025-2026 spreadsheet are true. They already knew who they wanted prior to away rotators starting. They matched their internals (MD-PhD, two RYs and their fellow). They offer over 30+ away rotations and some in dermatopathology but it was clearly for show since they knew their rank list from their home and affiliate programs (fellows/Quinnipiac). I would be very cautious using an away here because it is based on nepotism. There is one very powerful faculty member at this institution that is very Pro-Trump and Pro-Zionist to the point where their scribe warns you beforehand working with them to not say anything and to let it happen. As a rotator I personally witnessed this faculty member get into a debate about politics while in the room with the patient who held an opposing view. There are no words to express the disappointment many rotators had for this away rotation seeing the match list prove these rumors true. Protect your feelings and do not trust this program to not match based on nepotism.
💬1. is the pro-trump pro-zionist a man or woman? I rotated here and didn't experience that lolol
💬1. is the pro-trump pro-zionist a man or woman? I rotated here and didn't experience that lolol > woman, incoming president of AAD lol
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Anyone able to switch September away at Uconn for August away?
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Which programs are known rotation mills?
USC
Apr 2
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Even more important than rotation mills are programs that only take their own research fellows. While rotation mills will still interview and match a percentage of their rotators (with variability between programs), programs that only take their research fellows will rotate and interview many of their rotators, but ultimately offer little to no chance of matching for those outside their fellows.
Apr 2
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what programs do this besides sinai
Apr 2
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what programs do this besides sinai, Mayo AZ
Apr 2
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Rotating, signaling, and interviewing at these programs is a waste of time and is performative; they already know who they plan to take for the upcoming cycle
Apr 2
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WashU
Apr 3
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very true. Do NOT waste your time at Mayo AZ or Sinai. UConn also (at least this year). CWRU as well is a major rotation mill people need to talk more about
Apr 3
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UCONN
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Penn
Apr 7
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Wake
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CWRU
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northwestern
Apr 9
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Every other year uconn has taken a lot of their away rotators, including all their current residents.
Aug 29
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Is it just me, or does it feel like dei epi/outcomes research is getting harder and harder to publish? Getting desk rejected with no comments from like 5-6 journals for each paper. And similar research was published in places like JAAD/JAMA derm 3 years ago
probs has to do with this administration lol
Jul 17
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lol i feel like publishing anything in JAAD/JAMA is impossible these days
Jul 17
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the dear dermatoethicist studies being published 24/7 make me go WHAT WHY THIS AND NOT MINE but alas
Jul 17
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OMG same here
Jul 18
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not true. have had 2 jderm and 2 jaad in the past year. this is my gut i think the rise of claude code and agentic AI leading to the ease of putting together crappy analyses + thrown together letter has the reviewers looking more closely at things. + if you don't have stats/epi credentials or aren't publishing w/ a PI who has a stats/epi background. whenever i submit I always provide my code for full transparency so they know whats up.
Jul 18
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they publish absolute garbage in JAAD as long as its an MGH senior author
Jul 18
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or UConn since editor is from there
Jul 19
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Seeing people ranking my home program #1. Good luck Charlie (they're toxic as F cannot wait to get out).
say what it is coward
Mar 7
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prob harvard they salty
Mar 7
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i love my home program and people trash it on here all the time, probably to make others rank lower. cant wait to be done with this
Mar 7
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UConn?
Mar 7
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AHHH one of the derm programs I interviewed with sent a Valentine's Day care package 😭
what program is this?
Feb 21
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definitely not uconn
Feb 21
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definitely not uconn
Mar 7
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Thoughts on UConn vs Wayne? Both programs that I'm not too familar with (OOS for both) - needed some help with ranking> I'd do Wayne over UConn
not OP but you could expand on why? UConn has better Mohs matches (UCLA, UF, etc.) although not sure if this is because there is more Mohs interest over there... interested to hear your thoughts
Feb 21
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Mohs matches are not indicative of how good a program is. There are also people from UConn in prior years who went unmatched in Mohs
Feb 21
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family? where are you from originally? priorities? vibes at tge two programs are very different
Feb 21
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from the west coast (most family from there), both programs have mohs fellowship now, honestly just looking for good training and want to be a solid derm, may want to pursue mohs in the future - could you expand on vibes at the places and which you would rank higher?
Feb 21
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As an away rotator at UConn, I can say that Dr. Feng (Mohs) had said he prefers to take people NOT from UConn internally as it's better to have more variety in trains of thought or w/e. Not sure if that will sway you. Otherwise, Wayne has more SOC, community family vibes between residents and faculty. UConn is semi-similar but there is an air of heirarchy there especially as an rotator...
Feb 21
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Wayne state has also not historically taken their own for Mohs...
Feb 21
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wayne state for diversity of training
Feb 21
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from the west coast (most family from there), both programs have mohs fellowship now, honestly just looking for good training and want to be a solid derm, may want to pursue mohs in the future - could you expand on vibes at the places and which you would rank higher?
Mar 7
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As an away rotator at UConn, I can say that Dr. Feng (Mohs) had said he prefers to take people NOT from UConn internally as it's better to have more variety in trains of thought or w/e. Not sure if that will sway you. Otherwise, Wayne has more SOC, community family vibes between residents and faculty. UConn is semi-similar but there is an air of heirarchy there especially as an rotator...
Mar 7
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Wayne state has also not historically taken their own for Mohs...
Mar 7
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wayne state for diversity of training
Mar 7
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need some help ranking programs that are in the middle of my list: Henry Ford, Minnesota, Ohio State, and UConn, don't really have connections to these places and haven't ever been to the midwest before lolol, any thoughts on these programs and how to rank?
Been told to rank the middle more so based on location
Feb 21
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sounds good, yeah haven't been to any of these cities and hard to tell program vibes from the interviews, any thoughts about any of these programs?
Feb 21
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I think a lot of it will come down to personal preference? Ex., for me personally, I'd prioritize programs in areas where I don't have connections that are next to a bigger airport to make it easier to see family/friends; city size and demographics are also something to consider
Feb 21
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Columbus, OH is a great city to live in, great football and has an airport. Winters aren't as brutal as MN. Would recommend
Feb 21
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disagree, I think Columbus Ohio sucks ass. But it's probably better than Detroit or Minnesota
Feb 21
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sounds good, yeah haven't been to any of these cities and hard to tell program vibes from the interviews, any thoughts about any of these programs?
Mar 7
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I think a lot of it will come down to personal preference? Ex., for me personally, I'd prioritize programs in areas where I don't have connections that are next to a bigger airport to make it easier to see family/friends; city size and demographics are also something to consider
Mar 7
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disagree, I think Columbus Ohio sucks ass. But it's probably better than Detroit or Minnesota
Mar 7
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Anyone receive a RTM call?
this doesn't happen
Feb 21
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someone I know just did ….
Feb 21
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what program
Feb 21
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uconn
Feb 21
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dead
Feb 21
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comments calling this out (RTM from some t10) as fake are getting deleted. im so sick of this i hope karma finds each of us on match day
Feb 21
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LMAO
Feb 21
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I too got UConn phone call
Feb 21
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we cant all get these phone calls
Feb 21
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why torment ppl who are really really stressed out, we are the future of dermatology, don't ruin it for other people, this should be a supportive platform for us to talk about REAL stuff
Feb 21
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> STOP this is def not true, and I also confirmed with ppl at UConn because my anxiety was through the roof!!!
Feb 21
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you confirmed with their leadership that uconn didnt do RTM calls?
Feb 21
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I spoke to some of the residents but I trust them
Feb 21
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fair, were you an away? they were cold to some of us :/
Feb 21
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I was an away and ik how you felt, it felt like they knew their ppl that they wanted to associate with, esp with the nepos :( fortunately got along with a couple residents that were kind
Feb 21
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the nepos im dyinggg, theres always a few good eggs everywhere, glad you had that experience!!
Feb 21
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ik, hoping for the best for both of us! are you ranking uconn highly? hopefully the coldness goes away for ppl that match there
Feb 21
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i only have 3 interviews so... by default yes lol! maybe 1-2?
Feb 21
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sending positive vibes your way! uconn is a good program despite all the nepo rumors, maybe we'll be co-resys who knows :)
Feb 21
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if we are co-resys i will be spilling who i am on the spreadsheet!! fingers crossed for the two of us! <3 ( and everyone else reading)
Feb 21
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haha <3
Feb 21
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< can someone else confirm if the UConn calls are fake? as someone who only had 2 interviews (one being uconn) super stressed to hear thissss
Feb 21
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your anxiety is valid but im gonna hold your hand when i say this—don't let people on the internet have control over your mental wellbeing right now. This is no longer in your control. I know it's easier said than done. < I think I know what program they're referring to, and it's not Uconn! wishing you the best <3
Feb 21
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actually OP claimed it was a t10 making calls
Feb 21
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tbh I just took that entire thread for sarcasm..
Feb 21
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it originally had more content/details
Feb 21
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I just find it interesting that multiple rotators had the same impression of them about knowing who their "picks" were during the rotation. It has to have some truth to it.
Feb 21
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you confirmed with their leadership that uconn didnt do RTM calls?
Mar 7
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I spoke to some of the residents but I trust them
Mar 7
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fair, were you an away? they were cold to some of us :/
Mar 7
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I was an away and ik how you felt, it felt like they knew their ppl that they wanted to associate with, esp with the nepos :( fortunately got along with a couple residents that were kind
Mar 7
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the nepos im dyinggg, theres always a few good eggs everywhere, glad you had that experience!!
Mar 7
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ik, hoping for the best for both of us! are you ranking uconn highly? hopefully the coldness goes away for ppl that match there
Mar 7
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i only have 3 interviews so... by default yes lol! maybe 1-2?
Mar 7
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sending positive vibes your way! uconn is a good program despite all the nepo rumors, maybe we'll be co-resys who knows :)
Mar 7
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if we are co-resys i will be spilling who i am on the spreadsheet!! fingers crossed for the two of us! <3 ( and everyone else reading)
Mar 7
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haha <3
Mar 7
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your anxiety is valid but im gonna hold your hand when i say this—don't let people on the internet have control over your mental wellbeing right now. This is no longer in your control. I know it's easier said than done. < I think I know what program they're referring to, and it's not Uconn! wishing you the best <3
Mar 7
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can someone provide a real answer to why Uconn has so many ppl ranking 1 lol
they had a lot of home students and aways this year who are largely from the CT/MA area and want to stay close to home> they had like 10 combined home RY etc students. Also if some apps only had 1-2 interviews it's not like people have many choices unfortunately.
Feb 21
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i didn't interview there, but would've liked to - very famous faculty who love to teach, and reputation is residents are happy
Feb 21
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every program has a famous person bffr
Feb 21
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not true tho, not every program does have big names in the field
Feb 21
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every program has a famous person bffr
Mar 7
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not true tho, not every program does have big names in the field
Mar 7
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how are there more people ranking uconn on this list vs yale lol
there's hundreds of applicants applying that have never touched this sheet, seems like most of the ppl who rotated at uconn are on here, also big reason why uconn pops up on this sheet so much!
Feb 21
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they also interviewed 50ish ppl. not sure how many yale did.
Feb 21
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yale interviewed around 60 but people are real weird about it like sometimes a ton of negative info other times that info goes missing
Feb 21
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w
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Loveee seeing my top choice program get bashed on here because I absolutely loved my away there and it's in my favorite city <3, I appreciate you guyss
uams? Uconn?
Feb 21
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lowkey curious as well, willing to drop what region?
Feb 21
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no to both, it's east coast major US city
Feb 21
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NYU
Feb 21
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What’s the NYU tea? The fame & shame is suspiciously empty
Feb 21
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lowkey curious as well, willing to drop what region?
Mar 7
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no to both, it's east coast major US city
Mar 7
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NYU
Mar 7
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What’s the NYU tea? The fame & shame is suspiciously empty
Mar 7
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do residents already know whos RTM at their programs??
yes! Give me your name, Social Security, picture of license, mother's maiden name, and penis girth, and I'll let you know where you are RTM!!
Feb 21
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My SSN is 420-69-8008. ID to lright
Feb 21
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found you in our database! I hope you like UConn 😉
Feb 21
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not UConn again 😭
Feb 21
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678-999-8212 <soulja boy?
Feb 21
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yess 😉 > can someone actually answer the original Q I am dying to know
Feb 21
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nah the residents def know, a lot of them are involved in the process
Feb 21
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i'm guessing that they're under the same NRMP rules to not give out hints? :/
Feb 21
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there is no NRMP rule saying that they cannot share information. The NRMP rules prohibit them from asking you inappropriate questions like "who's your #1?"
Feb 21
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The chief residents most likely know, they might spill to the other residents.
Feb 21
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tbh uconn is being overused now lets do a different program, not even funny anymore :(
Feb 21
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Which prelim program in CT are on the chiller side?
....none
Feb 21
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NOT st marys, uconn or griffin. I think greenwich?
Feb 21
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NOT st marys, uconn or griffin. I think greenwich?
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