The Very Best and Most Emotional Match Day Reactions of 2025

By Josh Katzowitz, WCI Content Director

For a few years after she matched into her residency program, my wife and I would watch streamed versions of her medical school’s latest Match Day celebrations.

After a while, we didn’t know anybody who was opening the envelopes and reading the results to their classmates. It was just fun to see the widened eyes that soon began to leak and the full-throated screams that emanated from the new doctors who had just received some of the best news of their lives in front of some of their closest friends. It’s always enlightening to watch other people (and perhaps future colleagues) experience so much joy after such a long and intense medical school journey.

Of course, there are always fourth-year medical students who end up disappointed by what lurks inside the envelope, but even watching those range of emotions play out in real time in front of a couple hundred people was an interesting exercise.

I don’t watch those Match Day celebrations in full anymore, and I was the one who reminded my wife a few days ago that Match Day had arrived. But the joy around the country is still palpable when that day in late March appears on the calendar.

For the past three years, I’ve put together the best Match Day reactions I could find on the internet (here’s the 2024 version, the 2023 version, and the 2022 version), because it’s fun to watch other people have fun and to celebrate their successes from afar. I’m doing it again for 2025.

Like most years, most people who posted their Match results on social media were in a celebratory mood. They either matched at one of their top choices or they had successfully navigated the process with their significant other. Others shared their disappointment. Still others reflected on their complex journeys.

Here were some of the best social media posts I found from this year’s Match Day celebrations (and if you're only looking at this in your email inbox, you're going to need to click on one of the above links so you can fully experience the tweets and videos in your browser).

The Best Match Day Reactions of 2025

First, the joy.