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[AdductorMagnus]

What do you mean by high stats? If your stats are really good, I don't see why you shouldn't apply. You'll be later than most and may miss out on some opportunities because of it, but people have gotten into medical school applying later than July.

 

[Faha]

What are your stats and EC's and where is your state of residence ?

 

[mwsapphire]

4 weeks to transmission (on or about Aug 20th)
1 day to 2 weeks to get secondary (up to about Sept 7)
1-2 weeks to get secondaries in (up to about Sept 21)
1-2 weeks to be marked complete (up to after Oct 1st)

If someone is applying to 10 MD schools and submitted primary last week, and if secondaries are already well written and " done" for the programs, can you be complete by early/mid Sept?

 

[M&L]

non-trad late 20s with a state that has top private schools. only public health (no wet lab) research and did a post bac. MCAT-100th percentile GPA: 4.0 HOURS: extracurricular: 200 Medical volunteer: 300 Leadership: 1300 Research: 1500 Medical Paid: 2800 Shadowing: 100 Nonmedical Volunteer: 600 Nonmedical Paid: 400.
Here are my top choices, I also provide my stats and w/a hours at the end. My top choices were NYU, Kaiser, Columbia, Mt. Sinai, Weill Cornell, Upenn Perelman, Pritzker, Yale, UCLA, Vandy, Northwestern, Pitt, Duke, Stanford, Umass, UCSF, Lerner, Harvard.

dude.... with stats like this, i dont understand just you even ask us whether you should apply. Just do it. 🙂 you will be ok. (unless you mess up interviews)

 

[Faha]

non-trad late 20s with a state that has top private schools. only public health (no wet lab) research and did a post bac. MCAT-100th percentile GPA: 4.0 HOURS: extracurricular: 200 Medical volunteer: 300 Leadership: 1300 Research: 1500 Medical Paid: 2800 Shadowing: 100 Nonmedical Volunteer: 600 Nonmedical Paid: 400.
Here are my top choices, I also provide my stats and w/a hours at the end. My top choices were NYU, Kaiser, Columbia, Mt. Sinai, Weill Cornell, Upenn Perelman, Pritzker, Yale, UCLA, Vandy, Northwestern, Pitt, Duke, Stanford, Umass, UCSF, Lerner, Harvard.

Submit today but add more schools to your list such as:
Washington University
Rochester
Miami
Mayo
Cincinnati

 

[Catalystik]

Is it too late for me if I submit AMCAS today?

High stat applicant but due to some unforeseen circumstances I would only be submitting today. I'm getting conflicting advice and could really use advice.

non-trad late 20s with a state that has top private schools. only public health (no wet lab) research and did a post bac. MCAT-100th percentile GPA: 4.0 HOURS: extracurricular: 200 Medical volunteer: 300 Leadership: 1300 Research: 1500 Medical Paid: 2800 Shadowing: 100 Nonmedical Volunteer: 600 Nonmedical Paid: 400.

It's not too late. Prewrite your Secondary essays while you wait for transcript verification so you can have a fast turn-around time for Secondary completion when formally invited.

 

[Catalystik]

If someone is applying to 10 MD schools and submitted primary last week, and if secondaries are already well written and " done" for the programs, can you be complete by early/mid Sept?

For most schools, yes, but there will be some that screen the application first before sending Secondary invitations, so for the last few it may take one longer to become Complete at their school.

 

[mwsapphire]

For most schools, yes, but there will be some that screen the application first before sending Secondary invitations, so for the last few it may take one longer to become Complete at their school.

I'm mainly applying lower/mid tier MD where I believe pre secondary screening is very minimal or non existant, so hopefully most schools will send it quickly. I know Albany sometimes takes their sweet time but the rest on my list seem pretty speedy.

The issues that are not under your control are:
1) how long before primary application is verified and transmitted
2) how long before school screens and offers secondary
3) how long before secondary is received and filed
4) how long before application is marked complete and moved to review

My rule of thumb for removing any impact of time/lateness of application is to be complete:
for all candidates and/or highly selective programs, Sept 1/Labor Day
for solid candidates and/or most other programs, before Oct 1.

After those dates, you raise the impact of lateness being an issue. That is because schools get 5000+ applications by Sept 1 but at most can only candidates to consider, so you get held thru November, January, even February and they decide they need a few more candidates. This is why schools "hold" many solid applications until late.

Well I know that there's some stuff I can't control, but I'm hoping that verification should be within a month, and then that leaves 1-2 weeks at the end of Aug to submit secondaries. If verification takes 5 weeks and there's some lag with secondaries I would be complete by mid-Sept. By most time metrics I should be able to be complete at most programs by Labor day, with a few mid-September. I am trying to be complete as soon as a possible, I know about the timeline. Do not wanna wait until Oct to be complete ( unless maybe for a DO school that I add last min or something).

 

[gyngyn]

There is no substantial difference in outcome between rolling and non-rolling schools.

 

[LizzyM]

Top schools anticipate that there will be some exceptionally strong applicants who will apply late in the cycle. They are prepared to skim that cream late in the cycle and make an interview slot available. It is much easier to do this now that AMCAS is electronic. (Who remembers the olden days when applications and secondaries were on paper? Raises hand.)

 

[Seihai]

Top schools anticipate that there will be some exceptionally strong applicants who will apply late in the cycle. They are prepared to skim that cream late in the cycle and make an interview slot available. It is much easier to do this now that AMCAS is electronic. (Who remembers the olden days when applications and secondaries were on paper? Raises hand.)

Too young to remember this, but thinking about having to apply to 20+ schools using paper-based applications sounds like a special kind of hell.

 

[LizzyM]

Too young to remember this, but thinking about having to apply to 20+ schools using paper-based applications sounds like a special kind of hell.

2001 was the real hell. AMCAS went electronic, it was buggy, and applicants still had to receive and transmit secondaries on paper. Then planes were grounded for a week or more after 9/11 and there was no FedEx and no air mail. A month or two later, there was the anthrax-post office thing that made opening the mail feel like Russian roulette.

 

[Engrailed]

Top schools anticipate that there will be some exceptionally strong applicants who will apply late in the cycle. They are prepared to skim that cream late in the cycle and make an interview slot available. It is much easier to do this now that AMCAS is electronic. (Who remembers the olden days when applications and secondaries were on paper? Raises hand.)

2001 was the real hell. AMCAS went electronic, it was buggy, and applicants still had to receive and transmit secondaries on paper. Then planes were grounded for a week or more after 9/11 and there was no FedEx and no air mail. A month or two later, there was the anthrax-post office thing that made opening the mail feel like Russian roulette.

LizzyM has knows all. Haha

 

[Goro]

There is no substantial difference in outcome between rolling and non-rolling schools.

I never can understand why SDNers put such magic qualities on onto rolling and non-rolling. They act the same way toward the term "holistic admissions process".