After you have completed your interviews, the lion’s share of your work is done. Your only remaining task is to assess the information you have collected and use it to establish your rank order list. You may decide, after completing your scheduled interviews that you still haven’t found what you wanted and think that you’d better look at some more programs. Don’t be too frustrated if you feel you have to do this. Better to put in a little extra legwork now than to have lingering doubts later.
Take time to decide how to rank the programs you visited. You may want to put your notes aside for a while to give yourself some time to air your thoughts. Talk through your reasoning with advisors, friends and family, but remember that the final decision is yours. The next section will help you understand how the Match works so that you can make sure your decisions are accurately reflected on your rank order list.
