U Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics

"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?

|stats? x2 (also internal/external?) I got an interview: external, step 1 250s, step2CK 270s, 15+ publications

Thanks: any connection to the area, geographic or otherwise?| no connections really, i feel so lucky

invite with average scores, decent app but midwestern ties

Dang, I keep missing out on the invites. I know its early and illogical to freak out, but for some reason its sad x3

Last year for UWisc invites went out one day (10/13), and then rejections the next (10/14) :(

Yep, you called it

I need some rejections so I can validate my mediocrity as a candidate x3

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.

True, anybody?

The website to sign up for interview spots shows that they're all filled

Ok, but has anyone received an actual rejection?

i got a rejection yesterday

Over 500 applications? I thought the average was ~400 last year.

you also need to count non-US seniors and IMGs which i think makes it aorund 500

Haven't heard anything! |

I would believe it, but only because I got a rejection on 10/10, so it makes me think there were probably interviews sent out too. Plus, the interview person said they were internal, so manybe only internal interviews are out so far? Hard to tell. In perusing the chitchat archives, looks like people did get interviews and all the slots are filled up. Lots of people (>20 noted) got rejections on 10/9 and 10/10.

I haven't heard from them one way or the other. So weird how that happens!

Wait are you sure the spots filled for Medical College of WI? I see on the archive that the spots filled for University of WI but that's a different program.| oh snap, youre right, I am not sure now? Do you think the interview tab is incorrect?

| I think it might have been highlighted when the troll stuff was going on and it got carried through because no one seems to have posted about invites there. Maybe they've sent internal invites but I don't think external. Anyone out there who can attest to this one way or the other?

I know for a fact that only MCW internal and MCW away rotators got interviews so far. I doubt External/ non-rotator interviews were sent out this early

Ok excellent, thanks for the info, we will leave the data in the interview tab. just werent sure if it was a troll from before that got carried over.

First wave was only internal and away applicants --nah i was first way and external

ooo exciting

soOoOoooOOoo exciting. Anyone hear about some IOs yet???

U Wisconsin just sent out invites.