12:00 p.m. ET : 2021 Match Registration opens

8:00 a.m. ET : Medical schools begin uploading rising seniors 

11:59 p.m. ET : Applicant Standard Registration Deadline ($50 additional fee for late registration)

• Program quota change, program withdrawal, and program SOAP participation status deadlines

12:00 p.m. ET : Ranking opens

• Medical schools begin verifying student/graduate graduation credentials

9:00 p.m. ET : Rank Order List Certification Deadline

• Applicant late registration and Match withdrawal deadline
• Medical school student/graduate graduation credentials verification deadline
• Institutional official change approvals deadline
• Program reversion deadline

Match Week Begins

10:30 a.m. ET : Medical school Unmatched Applicants report available (embargoed until 11:00 a.m.)

11:00 a.m. ET :

• Applicant match status and program fill status available (by email and R3 system)
  Regional Match Statistics report available
• Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) begins

8:00 a.m. ET : Confidential Advance Data Tables report available to medical schools, programs, and institutions

• Medical school confidential Match results reports and Match notification letters available

3:00 p.m. ET : SOAP ends with posting of final List of Unfilled Programs in the R3 system

• Program Confidential Roster of Matched Applicants report available (by email and R3 system)

Match Day!

12:00 p.m. ET : Medical school Match Day ceremonies

1:00 p.m. ET : Applicant Match results available (by email and in the R3 system)

• Advance Data Tables available on NRMP public website
• Program Match Results by Ranked Applicant and SOAP Programs Preferred Applicants reports available

11:59 p.m. ET : 2021 Main Residency Match closes and reports no longer available in R3 system