Total no. of spots, you are going for Match! - adrenaline123

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It also depends on the competitiveness of the pgm.......for example guthrie has only 2 spots left for match....and it interviewd only 90 candidates last year...should be the same this year too...they have abt 80 remaining after the pre- matches they gave out. I am guessing that out of those 80...@ least 50 or even more have gone out to other pgms in pre matches.[im guessing they invited competitive candidates]...so its just 30 remaining for match.....if u are able to make it into the top 15 of that pgm's list...there is a good chance u will match....coz it figures prob in the mid or way down in the list of most of those 30 candidates....So I wd say the number of positions is not a very accurate predictor...rather its the number of ivs and the competitiveness of those pgms and the number of candidates they interview that matter.

though the same laws may apply to those big competitive pgms....u need to be within atleast 3* or less their no of positions to stand a fair chance of matching.