I’m pretty sure tiebreakers go to the applicant
by dulac89 (2023-01-26 16:18:31)

In reply to: That's not exactly my understanding  posted by czeche


If a program A ranks applicant 1 first and applicant 2 second
And program B ranks applicant 2 first and applicant 1 second
And if applicant 1 ranks program B first, and applicant 2 ranks program A first

Then, applicant 1 will match to program B and applicant 2 will match to program A assuming there are no others where the applicant ranked the program number one and the program ranked the applicant number one



Yes i believe that is correct
by czeche  (2023-01-26 17:20:10)     cannot delete  |  Edit  |  Return to Board  |  Ignore Poster   |   Highlight Poster  |   Reply to Post

But that's a different case. Each applicant gets their highest rated residency that is available to them, but that doesn't mean an applicant can jump someone by having the residency listed first and sometime else using it listed at 5th.

In short, there's no penalty to listing "reach" residencies. It's hard to explain this, but effectively they run an iterative process so the residency gets the highest listed residents who have that residency as their highest listed available residency.