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What are secondary applications?
Secondaries?
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wander said:
The second part of the application, they can be simple or complex.
Some schools will send out a secondaries to anyone who applies through AMCAS, others will screen your PS (usually just GPA and MCAT) and only send secondaries to those whose scores are beyond a certain cutoff (ie if you have an 18 MCAt and a 2.2 GPA, your chances are not good)
Secondaries can be anywhere from very simple (UPenn, three questions 1) is your address current 2) do you have any parents who graduated from Penn 3) Can you pay us $75?) to very complex (Duke required 5 short essays in addition to the PS). All secondaries that I know of require an additional fee (between $50 - $85 depending on the school) for your application to proceed to committee where they decide if they will give you an interview or not. You can hear anywhere from a few days later (for an interview) to being rejected in April (no interview).
Good luck!
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whoa...good thing you came on sdn.
so you have your primary application (AMCAS) - includes:
personal statement
activities
classes you have taken with their grades
schools you wish to apply to
now secondary applications are the applications given to you by the schools you designated. if you do not qualify or pass the screen at some schools you will not get their secondary application and thus that is a basic rejection.
but for the ones you get....you fill them out, most have questions you will write short essay responses for...and whatever information they want...and you send it back to them. at this time you send your LORs to them as well.
schools then look at both primary and secondary app...and assess if you should get an interview and so on and so forth.
so you have your primary application (AMCAS) - includes:
personal statement
activities
classes you have taken with their grades
schools you wish to apply to
now secondary applications are the applications given to you by the schools you designated. if you do not qualify or pass the screen at some schools you will not get their secondary application and thus that is a basic rejection.
but for the ones you get....you fill them out, most have questions you will write short essay responses for...and whatever information they want...and you send it back to them. at this time you send your LORs to them as well.
schools then look at both primary and secondary app...and assess if you should get an interview and so on and so forth.
