Today was match day and I am so stoked for the 4th year students at LLU this year who were applying for ortho! There were 6 students applying for ortho this year from LLU, and all 6 of them matched! So 3 of the students matched here at LLU, and they are so great that I would really want to do my residency here just to work under them. Of the other 3, one matched at UW (which is a crazy nice program), another matched at Case Western (another amazing program), and the other one matched at Banner in Arizona. Overall they did really well this year and really raised the bar.
Its crazy to think that in exactly one year I will be opening a letter to see where I matched (hopefully, lol). Time really goes by fast in this process of becoming a doctor and Ican’t believe that I was just blogging about my first day of medical school, and now its almost done! So yeah, alot of the 4th years here that were applying for ortho gave me a ton of advice, and now I know that I can really trust the advice since they matched, lol.
I’m really ready to get started with this process too. I’ve already been accepted for an away rotation at Hopkins! And my application to do an away rotation at Howard should be mailed out on Monday. The VSAS application doesn’t open until April 1st, and I’m basically prepared to submit it on April 1st. Personally I am treating everything this app season like I treated applying to medical school…apply on the first day, and you can wipe all your worries away. If you have the capability to, I just can’t understand why you wouldn’t apply on the first day possible, especially if programs are evaulating the applications on a rolling basis. So yeah, judging on how everything works out I should have all of my aways lined up by at least April 15 which aint bad.
I’m not sure where all of my other classmates who want to do ortho are thinking of rotating but I like them all and would be cool with rotating with all of them. There are about 7 of us want to do ortho this year so we will see how everything plays out. So yeah, match day 2011 here I come!
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