They send rejection letters if they are not interested. However, it takes time for them to go through each primary application. They look at everything before deciding if you are worthy of a secondary and they go roughly in order of when the application was received. So when you get a secondary, it means they are actually interested and think you have potential. It isn't like other schools that give secondaries to everyone to get more money and then as soon as you pay them, you get an auto rejection the following day despite spending $100.
wow. thanks for the info. I thought I'd never get one. However, I'm OOS verified 10 days after you, so I guess there is still hope.
When were you complete? Would you mind speak about your relative strength between your research and your clinical experience? I have the same stats as you do and OOS as well.
Status change today after they received and entered my letters!
"Thank you for your application to UW School of Medicine. Your application is complete and will now be reviewed to determine your relative competitiveness for an interview."
Here's to hoping I'm relatively competitive
OOR LizzyM ~69, Secondary Received: 7/30, Submitted: 8/2, Status Change: 8/14 (that was quick!)
I was complete on 7/12. I have > 2,000 hours of research with a first-author publication in a mid-tier journal, ~75 hrs of shadowing, and ~250 hrs clinical volunteering (including leadership in a student-run volunteering organization).
Hm. the reason that I asked was because I wonder if high research/clinical ratio applications might be rejected because of the schools' protective mechanism. Since they are super strong in primary care and relatively weak in research, they might want to give up the OOS applicants who are strong in research and who are good candidate for other schools, and instead give a chance to applicants with high clinical/research backgrounds. I'm in the same boat with you >10k hours of research and >5 pubs. but only a few hundred hours of shadowing and clinical volunteering. So I might suffer the same fate.
You are right!! Haha. I just saw it being the No1 in primary care and I thought I didn't see it on top 20 research schools, but on more careful observation, the US news blocked the 8-10 schools on the ranking with a bar saying "want full ranking? Pay!" And UW happen to be blocked while I did the search.
Good to know. As I said I was only make a guess and try to explain why someone with a good stats might be rejected. I certainly did not word it as a fact. Theory proven wrong and I am happy to be wrong. Thanks for saying something.
Yeah. Same boat. verified a lot later than you by about 2 weeks. Nothing as well. Good luck!
Totally agree on your last sentence.
My letters were submitted via AMCAS before the secondaries became available. The letters were the only component of the secondary keeping it from being complete, and they were still marked absent yesterday, so I imagine that the office entered it in today.
If I have heard correctly from my classmates, it's a grant now that you are given after the cycle is over and they have the class selected. They only give like 8 out and it covers the difference in tuition cost. There is no more getting Washington residency after a year.
II today! IS, LizzyM 75. Submitted secondary 7/11
Congrats!! thats such great news 🙂 When were you complete?II today
