Match Day is typically steeped in anticipation. It’s the moment when all fourth-year medical students across the country and around the world learn where they’re going to do their residency. The 2021 Main Residency Match was the largest in the National Resident Matching Program’s (NRMP) history. A record-high 48,700 applicants – an increase of 8.3 percent over 2020, and the largest single-year increase to date – submitted program choices for 38,106 positions, the most ever offered in the Match.