Yale-New Haven Hosp-CT

There was mention of kindness from an Indian dude from UChicago, Asian dude from Yale and a cosmetics? guy from Penn

<where did these people match?

I think UChicago and Yale guys are at Harvard

sounds suspect to me if there was only 1 person. Wonder what these ppl get out of doing fake RTM? maybe they think the rest of us will rank these places lower?

Unfortunately its near impossible to interpret RTM calls on this spreadsheet

even when it says x2 or x3 it could be a random fake post from 1 person

Exactly

Yale might not do R2M but they are known to make it very clear that they want you so if there's been no correspondence, that's definitely a sign - also Stanford and Penn has indeed sent out calls

Yale won't get everyone they want, so don't worry if there is no correspondence from any of these programs

If a place has sent out RTM calls and you didn't get one... would it be unusual for you to still match there? x2 << not impossible, but your chances are much lower

<Not really. The applicants who are getting r2m calls at these locations are getting r2m calls from all the others that do them as well, and everyone can only go to one program.

Stanford, Yale, MCW

MCW wasn't an RTM call based on what was written 9-10 rows below here << do we think yale actually did?

A few programs have. It really doesn't matter though - rank in order of which programs you want to attend.

I agree it shouldn't change ranking but I do think it's reasonable to want to know which have sent them

can anyone else please confirm this? was this only one person?

<on a saturday? x2

Yale; MCW; stanford

Wash U

<we're all these through the derm departments?

NYU

I'd like to give a nod to the University of Missouri for the pizza at lunch. Bahn Mi pizza was delicious

Henry Ford for the best snacks. Dried fruit, chocolate covered (dont remember what), and Rx bars

tx

Miami. That Cuban food was so good

I love this town, the people, the food - pork sandwiches - my favorite ... but tonight I'm hungry for something different

UCSFx2 gotta love that sushi and ice cream sandwich combo

Kaiser lunch had bomb build your own bibimbap

TX A&M had chick fil a sandwiches so them for sure

Yale "foods of New Haven" was bomb x 2

The Mexican food at Stanford + the mediterranean food at stanford

Dartmouth pre-fixe farm to table dinner the night before

<- i feel like a lot is based on history no? I know at NYU they trained some of the trailblazers in derm (like way way back) and it was also big during the AIDS epidemic -- That's good to know. Tbh, I actually don't know much of anything about derm history, and wasn't aware. So do you think they got their reputation mostly based on years of continuous contributions to the field?

NYU is the top creme de la creme program.

i would cream myself to match any of the top 5 x2 <My mentors have mentioned slightly different lists to me that they consider the top programs (though 3-4 of those always make the list), so it is all subjective. <<< Thanks for the input, good to know that they may not be as static as they seem

< would love to hear your mentors lists

Tufts, Harvard, BU, UCLA, UCSF

LOL <why are 3/5 in Boston? That just doesn't sound right to me.

UCSF, Cornell, Yale, (but Cornell and Yale apparently required Step 2 prior to interviews, according to Frieda but I don't know how stringent this requirement is). Mayo also said in Frieda that it requires Step 2 prior to interviews, but I got a waitlist there, so I don't know how true it actually is. UCSF is also known to make individual exceptions, according to my dean. In short, if they didn't ask for it, then I wouldn't really think much of it. A couple of residents at different top 5 programs told me that they never updated the Step 2 and the rank list is made after the interviews anyway so there's so many factors going into it (but also note that they were from top medical schools themselves).<<will confirm they werent stringent on step 2 criteria. got an interview invite from both without having taken step 2 ck or cs by that time.

Great for if I failed CS. x2

<....nox1

<N=1 opinion. I think it is a really good and growing/improving program. Pros include patient diversity, nice faculty, lots of specialty clinics, cool Hopkins medical pathology for consults. Talking to residents, shortcomings seemed to be more on procedural/cosmetic side where some mentioned having less exposures (and students got very little exposure too). No mohs fellowship and lots of turnover especially in mohs, but residents mentioned lots of new faculty which could be great if they stay there. They said they get a lot of autonomy in both general clinics and procedural/mohs since there are no fellows. Also, research opportunities seemed variable. Other "upper mid tier" have more established research programs in a variety of areas, but this also seems to be growing at Hopkins. People seemed happy overall though<<to add on that as a rotator, even though they have no mohs fellowship they have matched people into mohs, including last year into great programs. <agree that hopkins is an absolutely AMAZING program in every way. the faculty, research, mentorship, clinical exposure are just phenomenal.

<<Not a Baltimore fan, but Hopkins seems solid << Thanks guys that was some great info! << What are the chances if you are a non-internal, non-researcher? - is it just me or looking at their current residents looks like Hopkins matches a lot of their own med students/researchers

at least one fellowship from each

Doesn’t matter. All about your instagram presence at that point< HAHA

100% true

depends on how many giveaways/month

This may be dumb to say but maybe Stanford since the population may be most like private?

<<Dude, NYU for sure

NYU wasn't one of the OP's posted programs