If you met me anonymously, as in the ED, you might think I was a senior, or even a junior attending (<--- because that has happened 3 - yes, three - times from senior medical students), just because of how I work; I quickly disabuse people of that notion, but that's me - I am made for the ED. I have recs that say the same, and yet, I can't get interviewed. I don't get it. Anyways, I write to point out that that letter from Advocate Christ; they say they're only interviewing 65 this year...
But they didn't fill last year! You figure they might learn their lesson!
I got the same rotation abuse via the mail from Palmetto-Richland...the hospital was fine, but the med school sent me a preprinted page saying I couldn't. I played stupid and resubmitted my info...wherein the med school resent the preprinted page, with the one line saying "LCME only" furiously gone over several times with a highlighter - yet, still nothing specifically written in hand, or to "Dear Applicant", etc.
If I get time, I will collate all the rejection letters I've gotten, and tell you who is illiterate, unoriginal, illogical, and so on.
A few first - Texas Tech and UAB have return emails - that don't work. What would you think of a place that encouraged you to respond, with an email that is invalid? I got the feeling like they were trying to 'push off' door to door salesmen.
At Wright State, the letter last year came as from "alaine". In the letter, it had "Dr. Whomever" "Professor of Emergency Medicine". I wrote back, saying that, "if it weren't for the 'wright.edu', I would have NO CLUE as to where this came from". That was one of the rare instances that I got a return, and now it says "Wright State Emergency Medicine". My contribution. ("alaine" is the Residency Coordinator - a really nice lady.)