I completed my primary application today. I got a 25Q on my first MCAT. I am retaking the MCAT on Sept 10. When will I start getting secondary application? Also, my advisor is preparing my LORs to be sent out. I have four professors who wrote me recommendations. Is that enough? Also do I send the LORs before completing secondary applications?
Thank you
Don't worry, you don't have to have sent in your primary as early as the previous poster said.
It takes about 6 weeks to be verified. Check this
thread for details.
Once verified, it takes up to 2 weeks for schools to receive your application from AACOMAS, shortly after which they'll either screen your primary and make a decision about whether or not to send a secondary, or they'll just send it to you if they don't screen. Check the Pre Osteo FAQs Sticky Thread for schools that screen.
You don't want to send LORs until the schools receive your app and create a file for your materials. Thus, usually the secondary invitation email has instructions for LORs. If not you can email them, but it's safe to say that you should send them in to the schools at that point.
As far as "is 4 LORs enough?"...check the CIB and/or the LOR spreadsheet in my sig for more details. Each school publishes their LOR requirements in the CIB.
The last issue is that of your MCAT retake. If you marked down on your primary that you'd be retaking, some schools will *NOT* send you a secondary until they receive your new scores. Other schools will just wait to make the final decision on all of your materials until they have your new scores and all other materials. You'll have to contact the schools to find out their individual policies on this, if you're curious.
