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Having read some threads on SDN by AdComs I am not sure if the delay was a huge reason for "rejections." As long as they were done within deadlines it should've been good but I may be wrong.

When did you apply this year?
 
Yeah most adcoms here say that having apps in by Labor Day is early-on time and by the end of september is on time-slightly late, so I doubt that most of your problem was your time frame. How many schools did you apply to last year? And was your list top heavy?

EDIT: additionally, they also say that they don't have the time to track how long you took to submit the secondaries, so sitting on them for a month+ likely had no effect.
 
avocado toast said:
Yeah, I'm grasping at straws here because I'm truly confused by how my cycle went. If you have any insight I'd love to hear what you think. I just thought with average stats, I was shooting myself in the foot by sitting on secondaries late and applying to some schools after labor day.
This year I applied to almost all schools from mid july into the first week of August. I submitted all within a week of receiving them and had my essays looked over by way more people. I panic added like 5 schools last night that I'm planning to turn around by the end of this week.
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I applied to 19 MD schools with a 3.6/513 last year and only received one interview from my state school (WL/R). Similar ECs with lots of research (4000+ hrs, 2 pubs). All secondaries were completed by Labor Day. I think a mixture of bad luck, low yield schools, and median stats resulted in our unsuccessful cycles. For this cycle, I rewrote my PS and pivoted my app more towards service; low+mid tier schools do not care about research. I applied to 8 MD schools and 8 DO schools this year. Hopefully this cycle yields us greater success. 😛
 
chaua said:
I applied to 19 MD schools with a 3.6/513 last year and only received one interview from my state school (WL/R). Similar ECs with lots of research (4000+ hrs, 2 pubs). All secondaries were completed by Labor Day. I think a mixture of bad luck, low yield schools, and median stats resulted in our unsuccessful cycles. For this cycle, I rewrote my PS and pivoted my app more towards service; low+mid tier schools do not care about research. I applied to 8 MD schools and 8 DO schools this year. Hopefully this cycle yields us greater success. 😛
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I feel you 100%. Good luck to you too this year! 🙂
 
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