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[quote=Anonymous]My DH is the head of resident selection for a mediumly competitive specialty at a prestigious DMV hospital and, though she may have gotten an interview if her academic record was good enough (and I would note that they don't say anything about her clerkship grades or board scores, which are the things that actually matter in matching for a residency) & she did a good enough spin job on her history in her personal statement, there's every chance she would have been blackballed during the selection meeting. (They don't explain her whole criminal history and if there's any drug stealing/fraud/etc involved, then the concern would be even more heightened.) This even though my DH's residency program is MUCH less competitive than ortho and a bit less competitive than ED... Genuinely her med school gave her bad advice if she had to scramble for a prelim match (which is what it sounds like) or she completely ignored whatever advice they gave her. The fact she didn't match in something at Rutgers or back at Rochester for the second year implies, again, that folks there had concerns or that she wasn't willing to lower her ambitions despite advice to do so. Her Linked In says she was a resident out in Las Vegas, so I'm curious if she did a different prelim year (medicine) and so had to move again or whether she did match in something else but still wasn't satisfied; the article leaves out her LV residency entirely.

Nonetheless, I feel a huge amount of empathy for her given that she appears to have done everything right after a rough start and I can only imagine how frustrating it must have been for her that she couldn't overcome it. [/quote]

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