Holistic Screening

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If I got a few secondary invitations from schools that have a holistic pre-secondary screening, does that mean that my personal statement and the description I put for my W/A are at least decent? In other words, there are no glaring mistakes on them?

 

[Engrailed]

If I got a few secondary invitations from schools that have a holistic pre-secondary screening, does that mean that my personal statement and the description I put for my W/A are at least decent? In other words, there are no glaring mistakes on them?

Hey, which schools are you referring to?
I am still waiting for a secondary at one of the UC schools so maybe Im not passing their holistic screen🙁

 

[Goro]

If I got a few secondary invitations from schools that have a holistic pre-secondary screening, does that mean that my personal statement and the description I put for my W/A are at least decent? In other words, there are no glaring mistakes on them?

Secondaries are often a tax on the hopelessly naïve, if not pathologically optimistic.

 

[deleted969405]

Secondaries are often a tax on the hopelessly naïve, if not pathologically optimistic.

Even from those schools that holistically screen? I'm not necessarily asking about my chances at that school, my main question is if I get a secondary from those that holistically screen, is there a good chance that my personal statement and the description I put for my W/A are at least decent without any glaring mistakes?

 

[Rachapkis]

Even from those schools that holistically screen? I'm not necessarily asking about my chances at that school, my main question is if I get a secondary from those that holistically screen, is there a good chance that my personal statement and the description I put for my W/A are at least decent without any glaring mistakes?

If there is a screen before secondaries are issued, it may be a MCAT/GPA cutoff or it may be a holistic screen of the entire application, including PS/secondaries. In the former case, obviously, getting a II says nothing about your PS/secondaries. In the latter case, that would indicate to me that your PS/secondaries were not terrible (although there could be room for improvement).

 

[LizzyM]

A screen by definition needs to be quick and dirty and, ideally, automated. Holistic could mean that besides MCAT and GRE they are screening in a positive manner for certain ethnicities, EO-1 and EO-2, rural (R), underserved counties (U), specific tags in your work activities section (research or clinical volunteer, or clinical employment) and even your state residence and all have it come up electronically as "if x=1 then send secondary".

 

[imbesrs]

Secondaries are often a tax on the hopelessly naïve, if not pathologically optimistic.

****, thats a deep sentence