2015-2016 Drexel University Application Thread

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nwts said:
I've always been told that a gap year is a year between graduation and matriculation because a gap year means you have one year in which you are not in school (this is the year you spend applying). In other words, I've been told that a gap year for a person means that person starts his application the summer after receiving his bachelor's degree and starts medical school about 15 months after receiving his bachelor's degree.
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Sorry maybe we were talking about the same thing then, because ^ this is what I was talking about. A full year between school and matriculation. For us it's wonky cause we are in summer quarter now.
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nwts said:
I've always been told that a gap year is a year between graduation and matriculation because a gap year means you have one year in which you are not in school (this is the year you spend applying). In other words, I've been told that a gap year for a person means that person starts his application the summer after receiving his bachelor's degree and starts medical school about 15 months after receiving his bachelor's degree.
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Thanks for all of your input guys! I think I am going to go ahead and answer it when/if I get the secondary. I don't think my time in between undergrad and matriculation counts towards being a "gap" of any length of time, since I was in graduate school for most of it, but I graduated in 2013, so there will have been 3 years almost between then and matriculation. I have done a lot more EC's in that time as well as lived as a "real adult" so I feel like it's worth mentioning to them.
 
Got the secondary! Anyone having a little trouble with the experience hours? It's self-populating all of my experience hours as 0 and will not let me change it... Should I just make a note to please see my AMCAS application for my true involvement?
 
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agoron said:
Got the secondary! Anyone having a little trouble with the experience hours? It's self-populating all of my experience hours as 0 and will not let me change it... Should I just make a note to please see my AMCAS application for my true involvement?
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No essay tho? Sorry I can't be any help.
 
agoron said:
Got the secondary! Anyone having a little trouble with the experience hours? It's self-populating all of my experience hours as 0 and will not let me change it... Should I just make a note to please see my AMCAS application for my true involvement?
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any essays?
 
taco152 said:
No essay tho? Sorry I can't be any help.
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moc1025 said:
any essays?
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Nope! Except for explaining any time your education has not been continuous, or if you graduated over 6 months ago, explain what you have been doing since then. I don't remember off the top of my head the character limits since they didn't apply to me.
 
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agoron said:
Nope! Except for explaining any time your education has not been continuous, or if you graduated over 6 months ago, explain what you have been doing since then. I don't remember off the top of my head the character limits since they didn't apply to me.
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thanks!
 
I was verified before July 1st, have yet to receive a secondary from Drexel.

Should I email them about this? Jefferson sent me a secondary invite on July 10th but i never received it until I asked them on July 15th if there were some technical difficulties on their end.

Thoughts?
 
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babolat91 said:
I was verified before July 1st, have yet to receive a secondary from Drexel.

Should I email them about this? Jefferson sent me a secondary invite on July 10th but i never received it until I asked them on July 15th if there were some technical difficulties on their end.

Thoughts?
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I haven't gotten it either but i was verified on the 9th. It hasn't even been 24 since they sent the first one out. I'd sit and wait a bit more.
 
babolat91 said:
I was verified before July 1st, have yet to receive a secondary from Drexel.

Should I email them about this? Jefferson sent me a secondary invite on July 10th but i never received it until I asked them on July 15th if there were some technical difficulties on their end.

Thoughts?
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I was also verified well before July 1st and haven't received one so I'd say just wait a little bit more before calling. One post on another thread said many schools randomly send out a few secondaries a couple days before they send out a big batch hoping they can work out any technical difficulties before the secondary is sent to a ton of people.
 
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Just got this secondary! Verified July 9th.
 
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really would've liked to have gotten this secondary before the weekend, verified before July 1st as well
 
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Got the secondary today too as well. The photo that I've been uploading successfully for every other school is too large for Drexel :mad:
 
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Joining thread.

Edit: The "watch thread" button is my friend.
 
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If I don't get a secondary invite by Monday, I'm just going to go ahead and email them.

I'm in a post-grad program at Drexel, and verified before July 1st, so I'm just assuming if I don't get it by Monday there was a mistake in sending it to me.
 
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babolat91 said:
If I don't get a secondary invite by Monday, I'm just going to go ahead and email them.

I'm in a post-grad program at Drexel, and verified before July 1st, so I'm just assuming if I don't get it by Monday there was a mistake in sending it to me.
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It's literally only been a couple days. I'm sure if they send them out in batches, it could take up to a couple weeks.
 
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Anyone know how long it takes for them to receive everything once you submit? I submitted mine two days later but it still tells me I'm incomplete.
 
I haven't gotten a secondary yet but I'm trying to pre-write the gap period essay. Is there a character or word limit for it?
 
No secondary yet either, verified 6/17. Just chipping away at the secondaries I have while waiting for my last few to come in, haha.
 
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just got the secondary....for all my experiences and classes, everything is coming up duplicated...am I the only one ?
 
MedBlue515 said:
just got the secondary....for all my experiences and classes, everything is coming up duplicated...am I the only one ?
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Did you just get it today? I'm surprised they're sending out secondaries on a weekend!
 
My primary was verified on June 11th
 
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I got my secondary this morning. Not too terrible
 
No secondary yet, verified June 29. Looks like most people are still waiting though so I guess I'm not too worried yet.
 
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jordan222 said:
No secondary yet, verified June 29. Looks like most people are still waiting though so I guess I'm not too worried yet.
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I was verified June 2 and still haven't received it. Not too worried given that many people have yet to receive it
 
just went to submit and all of my experiences disappeared....
 
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just tried to log in and this happened so I guess we need to just wait it out

"This site is temporarily unavailable due to server maintenance."
 
I was able to submit mine around lunch. I did get the error message a couple of times
 
Can everyone else log in or is it saving server maintenance as well for you all?
 
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ReadyforMed said:
I was able to submit mine around lunch. I did get the error message a couple of times
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Got it finally to work!

When you check your status, does it say if they received anything yet? Mines all blank
 
Hmm still no secondary for me
 
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Just FYI: I pressed submit yesterday around noon. It said it was all good. When I checked again today, it said I hadn't yet submitted. So, maybe go double check lol.
 
ReadyforMed said:
Just FYI: I pressed submit yesterday around noon. It said it was all good. When I checked again today, it said I hadn't yet submitted. So, maybe go double check lol.
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damn thanks for the heads up!
 
Still no secondary for me.
 
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For those of you that got secondaries, anyone have the word or character count?
 
Submitted. Now the wait begins.....
 
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Did anyone call about not receiving a secondary? If so what was the verdict?
 
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Basically, they only essays you write are about your gap year(if you had one) and institutional action. All of my secondaries have taken me at least a week to do (writing is my personal form of hell). I did Drexel in a few hours only because I was at work doing the app between different assigned duties.
One of my easiest secondaries. Just make sure the computer actually lets you submit. I double checked to be safe. My first submission hadn't gone through.
 
I have yet to receive a secondary as well...
 
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Good to know. What is "institutional action"? Any word count? And, mine are taking me at least a week also, so rest assured! Looking forward to one that takes just hours.
 
Still secondary here either... Would be nice to have a easy one to take a break from all the monsters I've been putting off...
 
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