As I mentioned earlier, when the Scramble began and the unmatched could not access the list of unfilled programs, there was absolute pandemonium on the forums. Lots of talk of conspiracies by AMGs against IMGs, rumors that hackers had taken down the NRMP servers, talk of a class action lawsuit, weeping and wailing and tearing of hair and railing against the whole Match process in general.
So now, an email from the NRMP. To sum it up, they do not know what happened, but they are investigating. This investigation is expected to take several weeks. Was it a denial of service attack? Who would do that, and why? Or were their servers just overwhelmed? I don't know that the demands of the Match were any greater this year than in previous years, when there have been no problems. We will just have to wait and see what the outcome is. And hope for a better match for all of us next year--AMGs, IMGs, and us poor residency coordinators caught up in this whole crazy process...
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