Talk to Funkydrmonkey..he had a 3.8+ and 35 and applied to nearly 70.
I ended up doing 49 secondaries... Hindsight bias, I should have applied to less, but try explaining that to my parents (who funded my app process)
If you want to write all those secondary essays and have the money, go for it. I just think that I'd get burnt out from writing way early in the secondary stage.
Yeah, I hate talking about myself now... And it gets old fast... I turned in a few secondaries lateish, which is why I attribute not getting any love from those schools...
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I'm sure most of us would have applied to a million schools if we had the money and time. Go for it.
If I had more time, I would have liked to do the secondaries for the other ones also, but once you start getting interviews, the motivation to do secondaries flies out of the window.
Ah I stand corrected. I assumed they got to see the same AMCAS printout that we did. Sorry about that 😀
EDIT: I can't imagine trying to keep track of about 50 passwords and checking all of those online status updates. That would have driven me absolutely batty.
That is why gmail has a search function. Plus, most of the passwords, I changed to my regularly used passwords to keep myself from going mad... a few of the other ones, I memorized...
Assuming you got interviews at just half of the 50 schools, I don't think there would be time to go on all of them. Applying to more than 20ish schools, IMO, is ridonculous.
Yah, I got 24/49 interviews. I went to 16, and wish I actually had the time and money to go to all the schools... Some I really wanted to visit like UConn, and others I heard mixed reviews about Case/CCLCM (which I slightly regret not going to). But since my parents were funding it, once I got an acceptance, I was able to trim down the interviews I went to, and once I got into one of my top choices, I let go of most of the other interviews that were left.
Unless you have no idea which schools you like the most
True. One of the schools I was super interested in pre-cycle, when I interviewed, I did not like at all, and subsequently withdrew from the waitlist.
I applied to 43 schools, and out of those, the only school I got accepted to was a school I would normally never apply to unless I applied to so many schools. GPA = 3.4 here, definitely worth it to apply to 43 schools than have to apply to 15 schools twice.
Also agree with a previous poster's comment that if you have to apply to 50 schools, you won't be competitive at half. (like me, I applied to way too many reaches). However, its better to try than to not try at all. the constant influx of rejection letters will only motivate me further
Yeah, most of my acceptances were at schools that I initially cut, but later on added again, after my father sternly asked me to apply to them...
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