Prioritizing Schools?

[curious_premed]

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I'm trying to decide how to go about submitting secondaries... I know you should submit all within 2 weeks of receiving them if possible, but does it make a big difference if you submit it like day 4 versus day 10? I'm unsure whether to work on higher priority schools first, or do them in the order I receive them? Or if I should submit the ones that require less work first just to get them in and over with? Any advice?

 

[Hi_I'mPaul]

When I did my secondaries, anytime I got my state school's I did it immediately. Even if I was in the middle of an OOS school. Then I did target OOS schools before reach schools. Some reach schools got pushed back to the 14 days mark for me. But, you want to get the secondaries in ASAP for the ones that you have the best chance at acceptance.

By the time you do a handful or two of secondaries, you should have good frameworks for all the questions schools can ask. I always did ones that require less work first within a category [in-state, target, reach].

At this point in the application cycle, 4 days vs 10 won't make a huge difference. It'll matter slightly more when we start moving into August.