What is coming
The tracker is live and free. Everything below is being built for the cycle you are applying in, in the order the season needs it. No dates we cannot keep, and nothing here is a prediction about you.
This season
The check, across your whole list
You already see what we have read for each program you added. The next step reads your list back to you in one pass and tells you where a program has published something you do not meet, in its own words, with the link.
The programs you have not heard of
There are roughly 600 Internal Medicine programs. Nobody applies to a program they do not know exists, and that is the part you cannot do for yourself at one in the morning. This is the piece the rest of the work exists to make possible.
When a page changes
Programs edit their requirements quietly and without a note. We keep a copy of every page on the date we read it, so we can tell when one of them moves.
What the next program actually costs
The ERAS fee is not flat. It steps, and the step is not where most people think it is. The arithmetic will be on the screen where you decide, not buried in a help page.
Next season
What actually happened
In March we ask everybody one question: what happened. Nobody publishes that, and it is why the tracker is free and why the outcome screen exists before anything else does. A year from now it becomes the only honest answer to "has anyone like me matched here".
Numbers, when we can be marked on them
We will not put a percentage next to your name until we can check that percentage against what really happened to the people we said it to. That is a season away at the earliest, and it is a rule rather than a schedule.
What we are not going to build
No chance-of-matching score. No ranking of programs against each other. No advice to apply to fewer places to save money, because the cost of missing the one program that would have taken you is a year of your life. And no requirement on any screen without the program's own sentence, the link, and the date we read it.
Questions or a correction: joseph@thematchlens.com