Apply to the programs that will actually take a DO.

There is no official definition, so be skeptical of any list that hands you the label, including ours if we ever did. What can be counted is the current resident roster: how many osteopathic residents the program has right now. That is the number the Match Engine reports, program by program, next to what the program publishes about board attempts. A website line saying a program welcomes osteopathic applicants is a sentence, not a count.

Students match after a failed attempt every year, and that applicant is who this page was built for. What changes is the list. Some programs publish a screen on failed or repeated attempts, and applying to those is a fee spent on a form that gets filtered before a person opens it. We read what each program publishes, keep the ones that can still consider you, and then build the rest of the application so the attempt is not the only thing on the page.

No honest answer names programs, because acceptance is a decision a program makes about a person, not a policy you can look up. What you can look up is what a program publishes about failed or repeated COMLEX and USMLE attempts, and that is what we read. Programs that publish a screen you cannot pass come off your list. Programs that publish nothing stay on it with that noted, because silence is not permission and it is not a bar either.

Yes. Your COMLEX transcript reports every attempt and the USMLE transcript does the same, so a pass on a retake sits next to the earlier attempt rather than replacing it. Plan on every program you apply to seeing it. That is exactly why the list matters more for you than for a classmate who passed the first time.

No, and the two get confused constantly. ACGME Osteopathic Recognition means a program has been approved to deliver osteopathic principles training, and MD graduates can sit in a recognized program. It says nothing about how many osteopathic residents the program actually takes. Recognition is a designation. The roster count is a measurement, so we report the count.

We do not publish a blacklist, and we would not trust anyone who does. Two things are worth checking before you spend a fee: whether the program currently has osteopathic residents, and whether it publishes a screen on board attempts. A program with none of the first and one of the second is the clearest case of a fee you do not need to spend. The Match Engine runs both checks across your specialty so that check is not a weekend of opening tabs.

There is no single number, and any number quoted without your specialty, your scores and your attempt history is a guess. Applying broadly is the standard advice and it is expensive advice, because the application fee per program climbs as the list gets longer. We set the number by working out how many programs in your specialty survive both screens, then sizing the list against how competitive you are. From Tier Two up, a physician sorts that list into reach, target and safety with you.

How many signals you get is set by your specialty and changes from season to season, so we work from the AAMC signaling guidance for your cycle rather than from a number printed on a web page. Where you spend them is a list decision, and it is part of the list conversation from Tier Two up.

It is the distance between your application and what that program has actually taken. A target is a program whose recent residents look like you on the things programs screen on: degree, scores, attempts, geography and home institution. A reach is one where the gap is real and the program is still open to you. A safety is one where you sit above what the program has needed and it takes osteopathic residents in numbers. That sorting is included from Tier Two up.

It depends on your specialty and on what your COMLEX looks like. Programs that publish a Step requirement are a screen the Match Engine reads, so we can tell you how many programs in your specialty you lose by staying COMLEX only, before you decide. The decision itself belongs in an advising hour, not on a web page. If the answer is that you should sit it, our COMLEX and USMLE tutoring is a separate purchase.

It depends on the specialty. Most still run through ERAS. For the 2027 Match, emergency medicine and obstetrics and gynecology moved to ResidencyCAS, along with the combined emergency medicine programs, and ophthalmology and independent plastic surgery run through SF Match. If you are applying to more than one specialty you may be filing on two services in the same cycle, on two different deadlines. We work whichever ones your list needs, including the ERAS experiences section and its ResidencyCAS equivalent, and the program list itself does not change: the screening is the same wherever the application is filed.

Osteopathic students applying to residency, whether you are submitting this cycle or building toward the next one. The whole product is shaped around the two things that hit DO applicants hardest: which programs take osteopathic residents, and which ones screen on board attempts.

Three packages, each paid in full: Tier One is $1,995, Tier Two is $3,495 and Tier Three is $6,495. All three include the program list from the Match Engine. What changes above Tier One is how much physician time you get and whether your match is guaranteed.

The Premeducated Match Engine is our own program-matching technology, not a licensed database. It screens programs on how many osteopathic residents they actually have and on what they publish about board attempts, then narrows what survives to your specialty, your geography and your preferences. Tier One buys you that list. From Tier Two up, a physician sits with you and sorts it into reach, target and safety.

From the programs themselves. Whether a program exists, where it is, how many first-year seats it has, its accreditation status and whether it holds Osteopathic Recognition come from the ACGME public registry. The DO share is handled two ways and the row records which one: where a program publishes its own osteopathic percentage we take it and mark it as published, and where it does not, we count the current resident roster by hand, name by name. Attempt policies and score floors are quoted from the program's own page with the link kept. Nothing is licensed from a commercial database, and nothing is generated by a model at the moment you ask for it.

A person does, program by program, and every row carries the date it was last checked. Rosters turn over every July, so a count from two years ago describes a program that no longer exists in that form, which is why the whole corpus is re-checked each cycle rather than bought once. Where a program's roster page does not say which academic year it covers, the row records that too, so a count is never presented as more current than the page it came from.

We build it for your specialty and confirm the delivery date with you at your intake call. We deliberately do not publish a turnaround for the list, because we would rather commit to a date we can hold for your specialty than a number that sounds good on a web page.

Documents. When you send a personal statement draft, an application section or a letter of intent, a physician returns it with edits inside 48 hours on Tier One and Tier Two, and inside 24 hours on Tier Three. It is not the turnaround on your program list, which is handled separately.

Every buyer of Tier Two or Tier Three, from the day of enrollment. There is no approval step and no application review. Both tiers guarantee that you match into residency, and the remedy is the next cycle worked with you at the same scope and at no cost. What we ask in return is that you run the cycle with us: apply to the list we build together, use the hours you are scheduled for, and submit on time.

Then we start from yours. Nothing here requires you to throw out work you have already done, and every tier includes review rounds rather than a from-scratch draft only.

Yes, and Tier Three is built for it. It includes three personal statements by specialty at five rounds each, so a dual application does not mean one statement with the specialty name swapped out. The program list is built per specialty, which means a dual application is more than one pass through both screens. On Tier One or Tier Two, tell us at intake and we will tell you honestly whether the scope covers what you are planning.

The list is the earliest useful piece, so before you finalize where you are applying, and earlier still if you are planning aways. Students also buy this mid-cycle with interviews already on the calendar, which is a different engagement with the hours pointed at interview preparation and the rank list. Tell us where you are at intake and we will point the hours at what can still change.

Because it is the first tier where a physician works your program list with you rather than handing it over, and it is the first tier with a guarantee. Tier One is the right call if what you need is the list and a clean application. Tier Three is for applicants going after a competitive specialty who want the hours available.

SOAP support is included in every tier, so you are not alone in the week that decides your year. We work the unfilled list with you, prioritize what you are actually competitive for, and turn the applications around inside SOAP timing. On Tier Two and Tier Three the Match Guarantee then covers the next cycle at the same scope and at no cost. On Tier One the next cycle is available to buy at whichever tier you want.

It depends on what you are buying. Paying someone to reword your personal statement is not worth thousands of dollars, and a mentor will do that for free. What is hard to do alone is check every program in your specialty, one at a time, against a current resident roster and a published board-attempt policy. That work decides where you can match at all, and it is included in the lowest tier.

Use your school advisor. They are free, they know your school's history with programs, and they should see your application. What a school advisor does not have time to do, for every student they carry, is count osteopathic residents on every program roster in your specialty and read every published board-attempt policy. That is the piece we built technology for, and it is the piece that sets your list.

No. Tutoring is for COMLEX and USMLE, and it comes with the Study Plan Builder. Residency advising is for the application: your list, your documents, your interviews and your rank list. They are bought separately, and plenty of students do one without the other.