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Please post the essays or lack thereof (in addition to word or character counts) in this thread and tag one of the pre-allo mods (WedgeDawg, Ismet, Lucca, or gyngyn) so we can update the OP.


Good luck to everyone applying!

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So on the MSAR, it says July 9 is the first day secondaries may be submitted. So maybe some will go out today!
 
ANYONE get a Louisville secondary yet?
They are the only school I applied to that I have not gotten any communication (in review, secondary invite, received your primary...) nothing.
 
Nothing here either lol. Kind of refreshing not gonna lie...
 
gravitaz said:
Not a thing on my end, still very early in the cycle of course. Waiting on emails is the worst part lol
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Someone posted they received their secondary from U of L, did you? I still haven't received any communication from them. Are you in in state?
 
YES! I just got the email from U of L with my secondary invite.
 
Got one as well, IS. Has the portal been glitchy for anyone else? It's not letting me upload docs and it has duplicate slots for pre-reqs and stuff.
 
gravitaz said:
Got one as well, IS. Has the portal been glitchy for anyone else? It's not letting me upload docs and it has duplicate slots for pre-reqs and stuff.
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I haven't tried to upload anything yet.
Will let you know if I have the same issues though
 
gravitaz said:
Got one as well, IS. Has the portal been glitchy for anyone else? It's not letting me upload docs and it has duplicate slots for pre-reqs and stuff.
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Same here. My residency declaration and violation forms don't seem to be attaching. My photo works though.
 
So for the question "Why are you pursuing a M.D.? Discuss briefly why you have decided to pursue a M.D. degree program.", are they talking about versus a DO school? Or versus NP/PA?
 
Waldcayut said:
So for the question "Why are you pursuing a M.D.? Discuss briefly why you have decided to pursue a M.D. degree program.", are they talking about versus a DO school? Or versus NP/PA?
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I took it as a why MD over PA/NP/other allied health profession kinda thing. 500 characters doesn't give you a lot of room to explain your overall motivations for med school (which should be in your PS already anyway).
 
So I am also unable to upload the residency declaration and the violation document. I've finished all other parts of the secondary and submitted them, anyone find a fix for this yet?

EDIT: After some detective work (opening the page source console lol), I have found there's actually supposed to be an error message that pops up, but for some reason it doesn't. But I was able to find it in the page source info. Here's what it says:

"Your file failed to upload. This may have been because it was too small and looks like an empty file. It may also have been because your file is locked, or a file of the same type is already uploaded. If it is locked, please remove the security (using e.g. pdfunlock) and then re-try your upload."
 
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NordicFroggy said:
So I am also unable to upload the residency declaration and the violation document. I've finished all other parts of the secondary and submitted them, anyone find a fix for this yet?

EDIT: After some detective work (opening the page source console lol), I have found there's actually supposed to be an error message that pops up, but for some reason it doesn't. But I was able to find it in the page source info. Here's what it says:

"Your file failed to upload. This may have been because it was too small and looks like an empty file. It may also have been because your file is locked, or a file of the same type is already uploaded. If it is locked, please remove the security (using e.g. pdfunlock) and then re-try your upload."
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Any luck with your uploads yet? I turned both forms into Word documents when I couldn't upload them as PDF files, but when I opened them after the upload the formatting was so messed up I had to remove them both.
 
pharmboyul said:
Any luck with your uploads yet? I turned both forms into Word documents when I couldn't upload them as PDF files, but when I opened them after the upload the formatting was so messed up I had to remove them both.
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I tried unlocking the PDF and filling it out and uploading. It uploads fine, but then I went to download the file to make sure it looked okay andddd its totally blank, as if you never filled it out. So I'm at a loss haha definitely gonna have to wait for UL to tell us something
 
NordicFroggy said:
I tried unlocking the PDF and filling it out and uploading. It uploads fine, but then I went to download the file to make sure it looked okay andddd its totally blank, as if you never filled it out. So I'm at a loss haha definitely gonna have to wait for UL to tell us something
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This is posted in the "Collect Documents" section:

"IMPORTANT: Having problems uploading a PDF? With a wide variety of PDF creation software in use, it is possible that the PDF you are trying to upload is in a format that we cannot read. Upload works best with PDF files conforming to the 'Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4)' standard."

So, I think compatibility is the issue.
How did you unlock the PDF since it is password protected?
 
pharmboyul said:
This is posted in the "Collect Documents" section:

"IMPORTANT: Having problems uploading a PDF? With a wide variety of PDF creation software in use, it is possible that the PDF you are trying to upload is in a format that we cannot read. Upload works best with PDF files conforming to the 'Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4)' standard."

So, I think compatibility is the issue.
How did you unlock the PDF since it is password protected?
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I used a site called pdfunlock. You just upload and type in the password and it unlocks it for you. It's the site that the error message suggested to use. I would agree that it could be a compatibility problem. They'll probably have to end up giving us a different file type or something.
 
pharmboyul said:
This is posted in the "Collect Documents" section:

"IMPORTANT: Having problems uploading a PDF? With a wide variety of PDF creation software in use, it is possible that the PDF you are trying to upload is in a format that we cannot read. Upload works best with PDF files conforming to the 'Acrobat 5.0 (PDF 1.4)' standard."

So, I think compatibility is the issue.
How did you unlock the PDF since it is password protected?
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How to Unlock a Secure PDF File
I did the Google Drive method and everything uploaded just fine. Was able to submit without any problems.
 
Sparxx17 said:
I did the Google Drive method and everything uploaded just fine. Was able to submit without any problems.
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I did as you suggested and after more experimenting and finally got it to work on my windows computer. I had been using a Mac and it always showed up as a blank document when I opened it. Finally compete lol
 
ChickRick16 said:
Secondary received! OOS but strong ties to KY.

Also, the residency declaration form won't let me choose District of Columbia as my state of residence (yes I know it's not technically a state lol). Should I just leave this blank and e-mail them about this issue? Or should I just hope they see my residency status on my primary?
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I'd e-mail them, they usually will get back next business day!
 
Anyone receive a confirmation for submitting the secondary? I submitted it on 7/16 but didn't receive an email
 
To upload the documents I opened them in google drive, command print, changed the print to save as pdf. It let me upload it after that. Hope this helps
 
Secondary received! OOS/ no ties (but resident of neighboring state)
 
Secondary received and submitted (OOS, neighboring state)! And I am so thankful to y'all for the tips about getting the PDFs uploaded, that made my life 10x easier.
 
Do you guys think its too late to submit an application? Im OOS but a neighbor.
 
For the questions on high school and college activities, they aren't looking for a description of what you did right?
 
I didn’t even answer the high school activities. That was 10 years ago and I didn’t do much in high school if we’re honest. Anything significant happened after
 
mrj2017 said:
For the questions on high school and college activities, they aren't looking for a description of what you did right?
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I listed the name of activity, brief description, and date.
EXAMPLE:
LINK Leader--Freshman Mentor--Dates
Youth Leadership Council--Community Clean-up, Voter Registration--Blood Drive--Dates
 
My undergrad college was on the quarter system and I'm not sure how to input my classes when it asks for my first and second semesters... any advice?
Thanks!
 
cmn25 said:
My undergrad college was on the quarter system and I'm not sure how to input my classes when it asks for my first and second semesters... any advice?
Thanks!
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Click the down arrow beside Academic Term. This opens a scroll down menu where you will find an option for "Quarter System." Hope this helps.
 
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