Residency Interviews

Alot of people have been asking about Daniels future plans, so I thought this would be a good place to tell whats going on all at once.

Daniels in the process right now of interviewing for orthodontics programs. He applied in July and started hearing back in August for interviews, and now all interviews have been officially sent out. He has already been to a few, but still has several more to go. Right now, these the the schools he will be interviewing at (in no particular order).

1. UT-Houston
2. North Carolina
3. Montefiore (in New York)
4. Oklahoma
5. Nebraska
6. Indiana
7. UPenn
8. University of Pittsburgh
9. Temple University (Pennsylvania)
10. Columbia (New York)

He had 5 other interview offers, but had to say no to them because they overlapped with other schools he liked more. He wishes he could have gone to all 15, but our bank account is relieved he couldnt :) He turned down the following schools:

1. Virginia Commonweath University
2. University of CA-San Francisco
3. Colorado
4. New Jersey
5. ...to be edited later cause I cant remember! Ha :)

Basically, there's a 3/10 chance we will be moving to Pennsylvania, or a 1/5 chance we will be moving to New York. I'm really hoping for something else to work out because I don't necessarily want to live in either of those places!

Most orthodontics residency programs are part of the match system, like medical schools are. You go to the interviews and rank the schools you like best in order from 1 to however many interviews you have, and the schools do the same thing for the people that were interviewed. Most programs range from 4-6 residents per program each year. So basically, if you choose a school as your number 1 and they choose you as their top 6, you will match there. If you choose them as your number 1 but they choose you as their number 10, you will not match there unless several of their "top" applicants did not choose that particular school as their number one but matched somewhere else. Then you would get moved up the rank list and match with that program. I am not sure if this makes sense, but hopefully it helps some people understand that have been asking about it!

Right now our rank list is undecided, trying to keep an open mind for Daniels interviews. We do have our top choices in mind, but are open to whatever happens. We are just praying it all works out and anxiously await the day that we get the email telling us where we will be living for the next 2-3 years. We will find out at the end of November!