May I have the envelope, please?

Well, those words hold a special meaning for the roughly 100 senior medical students from Hackensack, Meridian School of Medicine, who are celebrating Match Day, where they'll begin their residency today inside MetLife Stadium.

The eager doctors to be opened their sealed envelopes, revealing the start of their new careers.

Inside, Melissa Rose Cooper has the story.

Some exciting moments as Nicholas Cozzarelli and his family get ready to celebrate the next big chapters of his medical career.

I'm very fortunate that on Monday I received the notification that I did match into orthopedic surgery.

And now today, I'm looking forward to finding out where I'll be spending the next five years.

Five, four, three, two, one.

Congratulations.

And with the stroke of a gun, the big moment, because I really have been waiting all day to find out what's finally here.

There's no place I'd rather be, but my number one agency.

Cozzarelli, is one of roughly 100 seniors at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.

Overcome with joy at this year's match Day, students attending the ceremony inside MetLife Stadium finding out for the first time where they'll be spending their residencies after graduating.

The schools revealed once these black envelopes are opened.

The culmination is all these hours of studying test taking all that experience that you accumulated through the human dimension, all through the whole run of your clerkships, all your clinical work now coming together here to bring you to the start of this great career ahead of you.

School of Medicine Dean Dr. Jeff Boscamp commending the students for their ability to tackle special challenges, especially having started their medical school journey during the pandemic.

It only spurred you on to study more, to work harder to try to connect with each other in different ways.

I always wanted to be a doctor.

My mom has stories of me telling her that I'll be a doctor one day and take care of her.

Ever since I was a little girl.

Now Monifa King's mother is seeing her daughter's dream, getting one step closer to reality right before her eyes.

I had to pinch myself to think that all the hard work came to this day.

And I'm going to be a doctor and I'm going to care for communities that look like mine.

Sbout 50% of the students will be placed at Hackensack Meridian Schools.

I know you will help us live our mission, which is to transform health care and to be the leader of positive change.

There's no question in my mind you are going to make a difference in practicing medicine in our state and you're going to make a big difference at our hospitals.

CEO Bob Garrett telling students he's optimistic about the future despite dealing with a fragmented health care system as well as a shortage of nurses and physicians.

When we started this medical school a few years ago, the idea behind it was that the only way we could really transform health care and have a bright future for health care is to start at the beginning.

And that was to reinvent medical education.

And I think we've done that with all of your help at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine.

And now the students know where they've been matched for their residencies.

They have one more big event to look forward to before starting their programs.

Graduation day in July.

For NJ Spotlight News, I'm Melissa Rose Cooper.