Residency choice tug-of-war

Sylvia -- I totally agree with your approach! That is what we did for internal medicine and it worked out just fine. The derm ERAS list process got rather heated and we weren't being very supportive of each other. Because of that, it was best to table it until the match list. But your way makes a whole lot more sense.

[DCJenn]

just be glad you're not HPSP military. Then, you only have the illusion of control. We had a whole lot of stunned HPSP grads at the intern party at the General's house.

(We got at least minimal consideration- but...the decision had been mad months before the announcements as we found out)

Jenn

[Vishenka69]

Hey, NYC is not that bad or unaffordable. But considering how scared I am to move away, I can understand why others don't feel comfortable making the reverse move. I don't think that living here automatically makes law school unaffordable, private grad schools cost the same everywhere and we do have a cheaper city school. As for where to rank and interview, it should be a joint decision. You're not a piece of furniture to be dragged around the country at whim. Years back, I put my foot down and said that I'm not going to Pittsburg (then DH's dream program) and he applied to every program in the city and a couple in DC. While on bad days he still remembers that I said no to his dream program (which nobody guaranteed him a spot in), overall I believe we'd both be misrable there regardless of what his schedule would have been. A program's reputation doesn't stand up to friends, family and a hometown.