will
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Hey Guys (BBB if you are out there - would appreciate your input on this as well)
How do Pre-Matches work? Is there a list of programs that offer pre-matches? PLEASE correct me if I am wrong....trust me...on this one...I want to be wrong, but I thought it was against NRMP rules for a program to offer prematch and or a candidate to accept it. Obviously there is info about this that I am not aware of, please fill me in.
Thanks in advance for enlightening me!
Will
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| bbb
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It's not against the rules.
You apply, you interview, you let the program know that you are interested in a pre match. They offer (or they don't).
That's how it works.
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| chemamr
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ARE PREMATCHES SURE/SAFE?? IF A PROGRAM OFFERS YOU A PREMATCH AND YOU SIGN UP AND EVERYTHING, ISN'T THERE ANY CHANCE THEY WILL CHANGE THEIR MIND LATER CHOOSING A "BETTER" CANDIDATE???
has anybody known of any story like that???
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| katzung
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Yes there have been instances where programmes offered prematches and then after some time said no,but this is a very rare occourance,(in most of the cases candidate would have failed in one of the steps specially step-2 CS) normally it is either the policy of the programmes to give pre-matches either to get good candidates into the programme or to make sure they match candu=idates into all their positions in other words to see that their positions donot go unfilled (sign of a weak programme).
First of all you have to be shortlisted to the interviews for you to get a pre-match offer,the offer is either communicated during the interview (normally by PD) or within 1-2 days of the interview.
Some programmes wait for your thankyou letter in order to offer pre-match,depends from programme to programme.
Hope this helps.
Katz,,,,
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| bbb
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Very rare for a program to back out of a prematch for no reason. Now, if you sign a prematch and then you decide that you want a visa that they don't sponsor - that's a reason, but just to back out, no - prematches are pretty safe and pretty rare.
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| chemamr
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thanks katzung and bbb 
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