Anyone thing secondaries should be eliminated?

[GoPelicans]

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Most secondary questions are rehashes of things on the primary. Maybe they should just add a diversity question to the primary like on the college application common app, and an additional 'anything else you want to add?' question. 'Why this school' is asked in the interviews anyway, so what's the point of asking it on the secondary? /rant

 

[chickensoupdr]

Plus the fees for secondaries!!

 

[Ellie Arroway]

Consider GWU: $125 secondary fee x 14,000 applicants...

Have you ever met anyone who would turn down 1.75 million dollars? Or, in the case of most schools, almost half a million?

 

[GoPelicans]

Consider GWU: $125 secondary fee x 14,000 applicants...

Have you ever met anyone who would turn down 1.75 million dollars? Or, in the case of most schools, almost half a million?

Maybe just make adding a school to the primary $130 instead of $30? Schools could still get their money while making things more streamlined for applying students.

 

[OCDOCDOCD]

I'm okay with secondaries except when they're rehashes of the primary. I really don't get that at all. Why are you asking a question that you already have the answer to? Do some schools seriously not look at the primary? Apparently that's Stanford's excuse as to why they make MD/PhD applicants copy and paste their MD/PhD primary essays into the secondary. University of Washington also has a secondary question that straight up tells you to repeat your PS unless you want to make a new one.

 

[Doctor Strange]

Some schools get over 10,000 applicants and only have the resources to interview a tenth of that number. They've got to weed out a bunch of people somehow. If you can't take the time and care to submit a decent secondary, then that just gives them another criterion for not interviewing an applicant.

 

[A7X]

Most secondary questions are rehashes of things on the primary. Maybe they should just add a diversity question to the primary like on the college application common app, and an additional 'anything else you want to add?' question. 'Why this school' is asked in the interviews anyway, so what's the point of asking it on the secondary? /rant

Yes they should be.

 

[Mt Kilimanjaro]

Secondaries are one of many steps in this process that give an edge to moderately well-qualified students from high-income backgrounds. Interviews are another.

Mo' money = more apps = more interviews = greater chance of rockin' that coat.

I'd love to see the LCME reign in excessive secondary costs (e.g. $125 to process a few essays).

 

[GoPelicans]

Some schools get over 10,000 applicants and only have the resources to interview a tenth of that number. They've got to weed out a bunch of people somehow. If you can't take the time and care to submit a decent secondary, then that just gives them another criterion for not interviewing an applicant.

By that logic, let's just add a tertiary app... more hoops will mean more qualified students.

 

[Doctor Strange]

By that logic, let's just add a tertiary app... more hoops will mean more qualified students.

Perhaps, but I think schools are fine with interviewing after the secondary.

 

[xffan624]

By that logic, let's just add a tertiary app... more hoops will mean more qualified students.

There is a third app. It's called the interview. 😀