How does the NRMP Match algorithm work? If a program tells you you’re “ranked to Match,” should you move them up on your rank order list? What if you REALLY wanna match at your #1 choice - will shortening your rank list make it more likely?

The answer to both these question is “NO!” - and if that’s enough for you, please feel free to skip this video and get back to ranking programs in your true order of preference. But if you want to understand why (or if you just wanna quickly peek under the hood and see how the NRMP algorithm works), this video is for you.

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NOTES:

1. As the title suggests, I’m gonna try to answer some common Match Day-related questions in this Mailbag series. Got one for me? Ask away.


2. Want real advice on how to prioritize the programs on your list? Give me 20 minutes of your time in this video here:

Rank Order List, Buyers & Sellers Edition
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3. If you don’t know how the NRMP’s algorithm came to be, I promise, you’re missing out on a couple of incredible stories. I covered them in my series on the Match:

The Match, Part 2: The battle for the algorithm
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The Match, Part 3: On marriages and matching
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4. If you want to read the paper that showed that around a quarter of medical students tried to game the match (gaming themselves in the process), it’s here:

Rees-Jones A, Skowronek S. An experimental investigation of preference misrepresentation in the residency match. Proc Nat Acad Sci 2018; 115 (45): 11471-11476.

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MUSIC CREDIT: “Clutch,” by Nicolas Major.

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