U Washington Affil Hosps

Why would you tell us this and increase our anxiety

Because I have no life, no friends, no hobbies, and I need to come on this site everyday to feel alive

me_irl

me too bruh

i think you rejections/invites come out on the same day

Why do you get anxious? It's ONE Derm program. Good grief, you all are wound up WAYY too tight.| wow yea people need to relax, someone's just trying to give us helpful info... x5 |

"optional" x5

It says 100 words max but then the box to type your answer says 500 characters max. Should we keep it to only 500 characters then? That's hard to do!

Is there a hard stop in terms of the box when it comes to characters?

It lets you type over the limit but then it tells you in red how many characters over you are. I don't know if it'll actually let you submit. I kept it to under 500 since the directions on the site state both 100 words and 500 characters. Also nothing is ever optional...lol

Doesnt let you submit unless strict 500 character limit met

So I guess the 100 words max limit in the prompt is an error? Just FYI, 500 characters = 250 words, not 100 words.

Nope it's like 3 sentences max and around 100 words (depends on your word choice I guess)

ugh it feels like a waste of time applying here. so much inbreeding at UWashingtom

Oh wow. I had no idea. 6 out of the 10 current residents are UW graduates and 3 out of the 4 spots went to UW students last year

Also FYI one of their four spots this year will go to someone who has already finished intern year

Is this University of Washington or University of Wisconsin? Did they mail the supplement?| University of Washington. Not all applicants received the supplement :(

Wait, so the University of Washington supplemental did not go out to all applicants?

sounds like it

I didn't get a UW supplement :(

Did rejections already go out?

see above comment about LORs as method of first round app evaluation

Wow. So if we got rejected so fast, it means our letters suck? That is somehow more unsettling to me than if it had been a Step/AOA screen...| are you seriously expecting an interview invite from every derm program? you're not special. get over it

Yikes... calm down.

Probably statisically the majority of us will be getting 6-11 interviews or so, so it's OK to be rejected a lot

My question was more whether it bodes poorly to be in the first round of rejections. Obviously majority of applicants will be rejected by majority of programs. I am fully aware that I am a thoroughly average applicant.

Hey man, don't mind Mr. Crankypants over here. We're all in this together

I doubt that being rejected in first wave means you suck the most....they probably split all the apps into chunks and go through them in groups, and decide which out of each group they want to interview/reject

<-I got a first round of Wake Forest rejections but UWisc invite, so I don't think it means anything,

That makes me feel better! Thanks!

Are you talking Univ of Washington or UWisc for the invite?

UWisc - UWash won't go out for a while

you guys really need to try and not take every rejection personally. If you apply to every program, even if you get 15 interviews which is absolutely outstanding, you still get >100 rejections. if you take every one personally, you are in for a very long and depressing application cycle. even applicants with the most amazing stats get tons of rejections..... there are SO many things that go into the decision besides stats, different programs value different things and they can only interview so many people. hang in there!

Current derm resident here who's involved in reviewing applications. Believe me, when I say, getting rejected does not mean you have a weak application. Even tippy top applicants will get >50% rejections and most of you will (if you applied to all programs), get > 90% rejections. Programs don't interview many applicants and tend to preference people they know (rotators, home students, etc.) or those who have regional or local connections (especially for non-top programs). If you're Wake Forest, for instance, do you really think that top Harvard applicant who grew up in California is trying to move to Winston-Salem. Would you want to waste one of your say, 25 interview spots on that person (no idea how many they interview).

The people reviewing applications are certainly not taking chances with their limited interview spots, especially when they know people are applying to 100+ programs. Most applicants who are rejected are probably more upset about the concept of rejection and what that means to their anxiety and ego, not really about the program itself.

Yep! External x2

External, just put in the rest of the info, not the person who originally posted

You as well, friend!

and a happy Thanksgiving message from University of Washington :)

Ahh, nothing like a late night rejection to cap off day

Wow only 28 interviews?

They are a bit headstrong this year I see. Hope they picked well, cause they didnt pick me.

rejection here as wellllll woot woot

They mostly take internals