Secondary Applications!

[MedSchoolHaveMercyOnMe]

Has anybody received secondary applications yet? I have applied to 30+ schools and I worry that I am going to receive all secondaries at once and not be able to complete them all. Does anybody know the earliest possible day that people have received them in the past? Does anybody know how soon secondary applications are due once they have been received? I have been looking on websites to see secondaries from the past, but there is no garuntee that they will stay the same.

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[SpoiledMilk]

When do secondary applications typically start coming in if the primary app was submitted on June 1?

 

[aldol16]

Mosey on to the school-specific forums on here and you can see people posting when the secondaries are released. The secondary prompts generally stay largely the same - especially the ones that ask you about whether you're disadvantaged, a challenge you've faced, etc. You should start working on those essays. Some will trickle in very soon and then the floodgates will open in July (if you've applied to many schools). Interviews will start trickling in in July as well and the flood begins in August.

 

[Lamegane]

Has anybody received secondary applications yet? I have applied to 30+ schools and I worry that I am going to receive all secondaries at once and not be able to complete them all. Does anybody know the earliest possible day that people have received them in the past? Does anybody know how soon secondary applications are due once they have been received? I have been looking on websites to see secondaries from the past, but there is no garuntee that they will stay the same.

Yes. I started receiving secondaries applications however my amcas has not yet been processed. Usually it takes a week after processing to start receiving secondaries. The deadline for secondaries depends from school to school however it's mainly between the end of October till the end of February.

 

[turnipcake94]

For reference, I applied to 31 schools and received 17 secondaries so far. I submitted AMCAS on June 2nd.
Some schools screen so it takes a while longer to receive them, whereas those that don't will send you a secondary in order of receipt.

In terms of strategy for tackling a ton of secondaries at a time, I've been creating a staggered schedule where I try to finish 5-6 a week, prioritizing them by the schools I want to go to.