Do Secondaries Matter?

[owen_osh]

I was just thinking about this. At one of my interviews (Vanderbilt) I was told that secondaries are not read until the committee meets post-interview. At my other interviews that were open-file, I got the impression the the secondary was not included in the file the interviewer saw. Does anyone know if secondaries are usually read before or only read after an interview?

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[owen_osh]

For example, maybe the secondary questions like, "Why our school?" are only used as tie-breakers after interviews have been completed...

 

[Random Access]

Probably depends on the school, and maybe even when in the application process they are reading your application.