Has anyone in the past who has been in this situation have tips on knowing when interviews go/don't go well? Or how much the interview it taken into account in program rankings? Just curious and want more insight if I can tell if my interviews are going well or not!
I feel like that’s super subjective based on your own interpretation of the interview and also the individual school, right?
March 1st will be here soon enough
I do sometimes think it's a good sign if they nod a lot while they write things down, but that's mostly something I decided arbitrarily a long time ago
I always try to get them laughing, and I think it helps. I had one fantastic interview early on this cycle where I had them cracking up throughout (while still answering all of the questions and making sure everything worked out well). I love the random questions in interviews, especially if I get a moment to geek out and show excitement.Yeah I can't read interviews well at all. I mostly just ramble and tell jokes and hope they found them funny
Nah, it's called the scramble because it's chaos. It'll work out though, don't worry!
coop you know I don’t do chaos
I haven’t actually thought that far ahead. I’m still working out how to rank schools lolol
I was worried about this too, so I asked support. VIRMP will send your application and letters to anyone who has open positions in the scramble! No extra work needed. If you want to apply to places outside VIRMP for the scramble, you can download your application packet and send them that. The one thing that would be a PITA would be getting the letters sent over again, but you could have your letter writers send them directly or use a third party handling system to store and send, that way you can send them to a lot of places without bothering the writers. But it most likely won't have to come to that, since as mentioned before VIRMP is still centralized for the scramble too.
Blown up via email or via phone? Do you have to accept the first place that offers you a spot?
Blown up via email or via phone? Do you have to accept the first place that offers you a spot?
my patient is the one with a pheochromocytoma and yet I’m the one with a catecholamine storm right now.
You don’t have to accept any place, but the scramble isn’t a process where you get days to decide. If a program offers you a spot the expectation is that you pretty much accept or decline right then. You don’t want to go somewhere you will be miserable, but you also won’t have days to vet the practice. In that sense it can be good to decide ahead of time what you’re willing to accept and what you’re not. You don’t have to take the first place that offers, but you can’t guarantee you’ll get another offer. And offer 1 may not be available anymore after lunch if you try waiting out for other offers. For me I knew if I didn’t match I was just going to do GP for a year and not bother with the scramble, but for someone pursuing another specialty, they may be willing to go almost anywhere.
vetducator.com
One of the Primate vets I talked to at Davis said she had to do the scramble because she was applying only to residencies that were very primate focused and she didn’t match. So she called up UCD and they had a spot so she went!
I know three people that have scrambled for lab animal residencies; two ended up at Penn, one ended up at UF
This is super important to remember! A "bad" interview may not mean you did anything "wrong," but rather it's just not a good match for your personality and the program's culture. It's going to be anywhere from a year to upwards of 5 in a rigorous program, you're going to want to make sure you like the program as much as they like you.
I know it's already been answered but yep, scrambling happens for residencies as well.
This.
I can’t pick 
I recommend a March Madness style bracket system resolved by coin flipsCan I just clone myself and do 10 different internships spontaneously? I have 1-3 solid, and then 4-10 I really like and I want to go to all of them.
I recommend a March Madness style bracket system resolved by coin flips
If you really can't decide, then honestly it seems like a fair strategy
plus could reveal some subconscious emotions if you find yourself disappointed by the results of the flip
I do have an even number of hospitals! This would work.I recommend a March Madness style bracket system resolved by coin flips
For general rotating?
Yes
I’m a horrific decision maker when it comes to my own life choices lololIf you really can't decide, then honestly it seems like a fair strategy
If you really can't decide, then honestly it seems like a fair strategy
Can I just clone myself and do 10 different internships spontaneously? I have 1-3 solid, and then 4-10 I really like and I want to go to all of them.
I would like to second this
But like only one person would be doing the internship so it wouldn’t be different than regular! But then I get the knowledge and connections of 10 internships!!
Eggunner
The fact that what you would do if you had 9 clones is do 10 internships rather than dividing the work of one or two internships among all your clones is very concerning to me.
You just have to pick the right specialtyI would like to second this
A secondary reason why I decided I def don’t want to specialize
Ooooooor I could just do GPYou just have to pick the right specialty
it’s what I came here for and I like gp so it’s fine hahahha
Yessss
So hard to decide 😭
well how would I explain that to the hospital? Why there are multiple Cdo’s running around
let the record state that I never claimed I was sane in the first place
