This^^^^^^^^. If you are anxious about the timeline, hopefully you have prewritten. MANY schools do not prescreen, so you will receive many very quickly. The rest, not so much. And a very few are so tight with them that you might not receive them at all. While lots of people stress over this, I actually think it's a blessing, because, for them, you save the fee and know where you stand up front rather than wondering for months on end.
Plan on receiving them immediately. That's definitely better than the alternative. Plenty of people have been receiving very fast turnarounds. Secondaries are certainly not delayed across the board. No way to know if your friend has a red flag or just applied to an odd assortment of schools, but many schools are more than happy to push secondaries out and collect those fees before throwing you into an endless queue.
AMP????
What’s the mayo fiasco ?
The software vendor...
Ohh! Recently? Because, as I'm sure you know, a lot of people experienced very fast turnarounds in July, and delays haven't been reported since, other than at schools that are notorious for slowly screening.
Even "fast" schools have been affected by the slowdown at AMP...
Go back and read the school specific thread from last year. They had a software glitch, and sent acceptances to everyone waiting for a decision after their interviews, which they had to rescind a few hours later. They didn't even know about it until the hubub on SDN.
Secondaries are often a tax on the hopelessly naïve, if not pathologically optimistic.
