2025 APPIC Match - Phase I
Statistics for Couples
February 21, 2025
This year, 14 "couples," representing a total of 28 applicants,
participated in Phase I of the Match. Nine of these couples had both
partners successfully match to an internship program, while five couples
had at least one partner who remained unmatched.
For four couples, both partners matched to programs at the same internship site.
Following is a breakdown of the Phase I Match results for these 14
couples based on distance between the cities where each partner was
placed:
|
DISTANCE APART
|
NUMBER OF COUPLES
|
| Same City |
8 |
| Less than 50 miles apart |
0 |
| 50-100 miles apart |
0 |
| 100-150 miles apart |
0 |
| 150-500 miles apart |
1 |
| 500-1000 miles apart |
0 |
| Over 1000 miles apart |
0 |
| At least one partner unmatched |
5 |
INTERPRETATION NOTE: Most couples used
the couples match in an attempt to be together during their internship
year, and most tended to rank highly those program pairings that are
located in the same geographic area. However, it should be noted that
some couples may have had highly-ranked program pairings that were
hundreds or even thousands of miles apart, while some couples may have
had highly-ranked pairings where one partner chose to be unmatched.
Thus, if a couple was matched to programs in distant cities or had one
partner unmatched, we should NOT assume that this result was a
lower-ranked pairing on their list.
Following are the Phase I Match results based on where a program pairing was ranked on couples' Rank Order Lists:
|
MATCHED RANK
|
NUMBER OF COUPLES
|
| 1 |
3 |
| 2 |
4 |
| 3 |
0 |
| 4 |
0 |
| 5 |
0 |
| 6 |
0 |
| 7 |
0 |
| 8 |
0 |
| 9 |
1 |
| 10 |
0 |
| 11 to 15 |
2 |
| 16 to 20 |
0 |
| 21 to 50 |
1 |
| 51 to 100 |
0 |
| 101 and over |
0 |
| Both partners unmatched |
3 |
INTERPRETATION NOTES: A paired Rank
Order List submitted by a couple could have been very lengthy,
particularly when a couple chose to submit most or all possible
combinations of programs. Three couples ranked more than 100 pairs of
programs. One should not directly compare the results above with the
results achieved by individual applicants (e.g., one should NOT conclude
from this data that individual applicants "do better" than couples
simply because 81% of matched individual applicants matched to one of
their top three choices while 64% of matched couples matched to one of
their top three pairings).
Report Prepared by Greg Keilin, Ph.D.
and National Matching Services, Inc.
February 21, 2025