Is it bad that I only have 11 secondaries submitted right now

[evenfeather]

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About half were submitted before end of July, about half in the past week. I intend to apply to around 30-35 schools, and if I'm able to finish everything by end of August I may or may not add a few more (nontrad CA ORM, no research, 3.77/3.62/510, 3000+ hr clinical experience, 600+ hr nonclinical volunteer).

I could not pre-write (keeping up with personal life has been difficult), and I'm wondering if I'm on the right track. I know the 2-week deadline has been mostly debunked by the adcoms here, but I'm still paranoid about it because it looks like almost all of my secondaries will be closer to 3 weeks when submitted rather than just a day or two "late." Since apps are not evaluated based on submission time, and I have somewhat mediocre stats to begin with, I'm worried this will make it even worse for me.

 

[chilly_md]

Have you received more secondaries and are working on completing them? Are you waiting for them to still come?

 

[evenfeather]

Have you received more secondaries and are working on completing them? Are you waiting for them to still come?

i've received 26 so far out of the 30 i've applied to, so a bit under half done for the ones that i've received. I decided not to continue with 2 of them though so it's more like 11 done out of 24 secondaries for 28 schools applied. I'm currently working on secondaries, my pace right now is around 1 secondary per day and maybe half of the next secondary

 

[Mr.Smile12]

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MD Post in: 'WAMC + School List Help, 3.78 cGPA, 3.63 sGPA, no research, California ORM 5 years nontrad'

Jun 18, 2025

You have the clinical and non clinical hours and activities that Loyola is looking for. Include Ponce and Virginia Commonwealth.

How is this updated school list? As far as I know, all of the OOS public schools I included have at least moderate OOS friendliness.

3.78cGPA, 3.63sGPA, 510 MCAT, WARS 63, LizzyM 68.80, no research, 4000 hours clinical, 600 hours nonclinical volunteering, advocacy narrative


Alice Walton
Roseman
Quinnipiac
Albany
Burnette TCU
California University of Science and Medicine
Rosalind Franklin
Drexel
Marshall
Medical College of Wisconsin
Rush
Toledo
Belmont...

• evenfeather

If you made your list, make it work. Your success relies on your time/project management skills as it is about getting a high GPA/MCAT.

At this point, three weeks is not going to kill your chances, but you don't want to wind up on an "interview hold" because all the interview spots have been filled.

 

[chilly_md]

i've received 26 so far out of the 30 i've applied to, so a bit under half done for the ones that i've received. I decided not to continue with 2 of them though so it's more like 11 done out of 24 secondaries for 28 schools applied. I'm currently working on secondaries, my pace right now is around 1 secondary per day and maybe half of the next secondary

You can scan through each of them and do ones that are shorter or you already have some written material on to increase your pace. If you have less obligations on weekends, you should really crank through them while you have the chance.