Secondary Turnaround?

[musings]

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For the schools that have invited me to fill out their secondary (without even having my amcas verified), should I still aim for the two week secondary turn around time? Or does it not matter in this case?

IE: I haven't even started working on U Chicago essays yet and have an invite

What other schools (other than northwestern) actually give you a two week deadline?

I probably won't have my amcas verified until next week. I was hoping to give myself a full month with my secondaries and send them all out in a batch the week of August 10-15.

Do people feel this is a bad idea? I just like doing things in a lump...

 

[longhorn09]

Thanks for leting me know that certain schools give specific deadline for the secondary...😱It's scary to me.

 

[lrkoehle]

I probably won't have my amcas verified until next week. I was hoping to give myself a full month with my secondaries and send them all out in a batch the week of August 10-15.

Do people feel this is a bad idea? I just like doing things in a lump...

What? This sounds insane to me, if I understand you correctly. Prioritize your secondaries. Do the most important schools first, and then send it out. Why would you wait with completed seconaries to send them out in August?

 

[olemissbabydoc]

Yep. I tried for a 24-48 hr turnaround as I got them. You definitely don't need to keep them til august if you're getting them now.

 

[UVAbme2009]

With the exception of a handful of schools (Duke, Georgetown, etc.) it shouldn't take you more than a day or two to complete the secondary. They are easy questions that get repeated many times over.

 

[musings]

Got it!~

I haven't gotten my primary verified yet so I'm going to hold off on schools I've already gotten invites to. I really do want them to have at least my primary app before I send in the secondary.

However, even if I don't get verified in the next week, I'll send them out this weekend!

 

[alibai3ah]

Yea you can send them pre-verification, it's just the school will not look at your application until everything is complete which includes a verified primary, letters, and updated mcat scores.....