Your signals are limited. Spend them like it.
ERAS gives every applicant a limited number of Gold and Silver signals to tell programs you're seriously interested — and IMG applicants can't afford to waste one on a program that was never in reach, or a program you were always going to interview at anyway. We build your signal strategy around your actual competitiveness, not a guess.
Not every signal is worth the same — and most applicants aren't told which is which.
Program directors read signals as a filter, not a courtesy. Spend a Gold signal on a reach program with no realistic shot at your profile, and it's gone with nothing to show for it. Spend all of them on "safe" programs, and you've told the selective ones you were never serious about them. Getting this allocation right takes an honest, outside read of your own competitiveness — the one thing that's hardest to get looking at your own file.
A signal plan built on your actual profile, not a template.
Program Signaling Strategy is built around the four things that determine whether your signals actually earn interviews.
Gold & Silver signal strategy
We map your Gold and Silver signals against your specialty and profile, then optimize the allocation so each one lands on a program where it can genuinely change the outcome.
Program selection & geography
Personalized program selection combined with geographic preference planning, so your list reflects both where you're competitive and where you actually want to train.
Competitiveness assessment & advisor call
An honest read of your Step scores, USCE, research, and background against real program-match data, plus a 1:1 call with a senior advisor to walk through the results and finalize your list.
The Matchmaker tool
Self-serve access to the Matchmaker tool our advisors built in-house — a searchable database of IMG-friendly programs with match history and stats, profile-to-program matching, and a signal allocation calculator that shows exactly where each Gold and Silver signal should go.
One strategy session, priced per specialty.
A full signal allocation and program strategy session for one specialty.
Get Started- Gold & Silver signaling strategy
- Personalized program selection
- Geographic preference planning
- Competitiveness assessment
- Signal optimization
- Call with a senior advisor
- Self-serve access to the Matchmaker tool
Applying to more than one specialty? Signaling strategy is priced per specialty — book a call and we'll scope a plan that covers all of them. See our Refund & Guarantee Policy for how refunds are handled.
Your questions, answered.
Spend every signal like it matters.
Book a free guidance call and we'll map your specialty, your competitiveness, and exactly how your signals should be allocated.