2025 Main Residency Match Programs & Institutions Calendar

View important dates below and add these dates to your personal calendar to keep track of Match deadlines throughout the process.

Registration

Ranking

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Rank Order List Certification Deadline

Deadline to rank applicants and certify your program’s rank order list.

Deadline for reversions to be entered and approved.

Deadline for the institutional official to all approve program changes.

Match Week

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Program fill status available

Programs learn if they filled (by email and R3 system).

2025 Match Week and SOAP Schedule PDF

Supplemental Offer and Acceptance Program (SOAP) Begins

Applicants and their representatives cannot communicate with a program until contacted by that program.

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SOAP applicants can start preparing applications

Contact the application service designated by the program with any questions.

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Programs begin reviewing SOAP applications

Programs begin reviewing SOAP applications.

Programs may contact applicants upon receipt of an application and begin interviewing.

Contact the application service designated by the program with any questions.

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Programs may begin creating SOAP preference lists

SOAP preference lists can begin being entered into the R3 system. Applicants do not submit a preference list for SOAP.

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Programs continue reviewing SOAP applications and interviewing

Programs continue reviewing SOAP applications, conducting interviews, and creating/certifying SOAP preference lists in the R3 system.

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Confidential Advance Data Tables available

Confidential Advance Data Tables available in the R3 system under "Options", click on "Reports".

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SOAP Round 1

8:55 am EDT: Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 1 offers.

9:00 am EDT: Applicants receive Round 1 offers by logging in to R3 system.

11:00 am EDT: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 1 offers.

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SOAP Round 2

11:55 am EDT: Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 2 offers.

12:00 pm EDT: Applicants receive Round 2 offers.

2:00 pm EDT: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 2 offers.

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Program Confidential Roster of Matched Applicants report available

Program Confidential Roster of Matched Applicants report available (by email and R3 system). Once logged into the R3 system under "Options", click on "Reports" (embargoed until Match Day at 12:00 pm EDT).

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SOAP Round 3

2:55 pm EDT: Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 3 offers.

3:00 pm EDT: Applicants receive Round 3 offers.

5:00 pm EDT: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 3 offers.

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SOAP Round 4

5:55 pm EDT: Deadline to certify program preference list for Round 4 offers.

6:00 pm EDT: Applicants receive Round 4 offers.

8:00 pm EDT: Applicant deadline to accept/reject Round 4 offers.

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Programs Update Number of Unfilled Positions

Programs update their number of remaining unfilled positions on the List of Unfilled Programs.

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SOAP Ends

SOAP ends with posting of final List of Unfilled Programs in the R3 system.

Applicants can begin contacting all remaining unfilled programs.

Programs should update the List of Unfilled Programs as positions are filled.

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Match Day

Program Match Results by Ranked Applicant and SOAP Programs Preferred Applicants reports available in the R3 system under "Options", click on "Reports".