Couples Statistics - 2023

2023 APPIC Match - Phase I
Statistics for Couples

This year, 12 "couples," representing a total of 24 applicants, participated in Phase I of the Match. Ten of these couples had both partners successfully match to an internship program, while two couples had at least one partner who remained unmatched.

For five couples, both partners matched to programs at the same internship site.

Following is a breakdown of the Phase I Match results for these 12 couples based on distance between the cities where each partner was placed:

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:

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. Two couples ranked between 100 and 200 pairs of programs, while two other couples ranked more than 300 program pairs. 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 85% of matched individual applicants matched to one of their top three choices while 42% of matched couples matched to one of their top three pairings).