Holy #$!%, that was quick!

I got my first interview invitation today!

So it turns out this whole applying-to-residency thing is kind of scary. After I tell the website where I want to apply, I can track how the whole application is going -- whether documents are available for the program to download, and when the program downloaded them. It's a really intricate dance (apparently) between me, my medical school student affairs office, and the programs. I tell the website I want to apply to program X, the website notifies my school to get my letters of recommendation scanned in and available, the website notifies program X that I want to apply there, and program X downloads everything. And I can see the timestamp on all of it. Scary!

This program that has offered me an interview did so without downloading the 1 recommendation letter (of 4) that's available so far (my recommenders need to get going with that stuff -- they're due October 1), and without looking at my board scores.

Which is key, btw, because my board scores are not as hot as I would like.

So they're taking a chance, which is fine with me.

What's actually scarier is that my board scores are now available for the rest of the programs to download, and I don't like the waiting game that's happening now -- between the disclosure of my scores and the receipt (or lack thereof) of any more interview invitations.

A scary dance, an intricate dance. The seriousness of this is enough to make me wonder why I spend any time at all on things that are, in all honesty, so unimportant, like thinking about wedding flowers.

Geez, how did I manage to turn something so exciting into such a depressing blog post?


Actually, I got my first interview "invitation" a couple weeks ago; the student coordinator at Penn told me that they invite all of their visiting sub-I's to interview no matter what. Sweet! And in all likelihood, UofL will invite me to interview as well, since they're my home program. It's considered rude not to. So I guess there's hope.