Should I add a few schools?

[About28]

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I've submitted all my secondaries and I'm now complete everywhere. I was wondering if you guys think it would be worth it to submit a few more apps. Is it too late to justify the cost? These are the schools I was considering:
-Rush
-Drexel
-Emory
-USF
-Downstate (reapplicant)

Thoughts?

 

[gyngyn]

I've submitted all my secondaries and I'm now complete everywhere. I was wondering if you guys think it would be worth it to submit a few more apps. Is it too late to justify the cost? These are the schools I was considering:
-Rush
-Drexel
-Emory
-USF
-Downstate (reapplicant)

Thoughts?

It will depend on the strength of your application and where you have already applied.
Which medical school is USF?

 

[About28]

It will depend on the strength of your application and where you have already applied.

See my MDapps for more info but 3.69 c/sGPA 34 MCAT

Applied to: BU*, Cooper, Dartmouth, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Georgetown*, Jefferson*, Medical College of Wisconsin, New York Medical College*, Oakland, Penn State*, SUNY Upstate*, Toledo College of Medicine, Tufts*, Tulane, University of Buffalo*, UMass*, University of Rochester, UVM*, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, Western Michigan, Wright State, Creighton, Saint Louis, Rosalind Franklin, UCF, Loyola, Hofstra, Temple* and Einstein.

*=Reapplicant

Which medical school is USF?

It's the Morsani College of Medicine at USF

 

[gyngyn]

See my MDapps for more info but 3.69 c/sGPA 34 MCAT

Applied to: BU*, Cooper, Dartmouth, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Georgetown*, Jefferson*, Medical College of Wisconsin, New York Medical College*, Oakland, Penn State*, SUNY Upstate*, Toledo College of Medicine, Tufts*, Tulane, University of Buffalo*, UMass*, University of Rochester, UVM*, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech, Western Michigan, Wright State, Creighton, Saint Louis, Rosalind Franklin, UCF, Loyola, Hofstra, Temple* and Einstein.

*=Reapplicant

Your list has more than a dozen schools where you stand a fair to good chance at an interview. That's usually more than enough. What went wrong in your first application?

 

[About28]

Your list has more than a dozen schools where you stand a fair to good chance at an interview. That's usually more than enough. What went wrong in your first application?

Few things. First, the schools up there are about it when it comes to places I had a chance at. Second, my app was not put together well. It didn't have a theme story and wasn't well thought out. Third, and maybe most importantly, last time I applied I wasn't complete until October or November at my schools and my secondary turnover time was atrocious.

EDIT: I've fixed everything mentioned.

 

[gyngyn]

Few things. First, the schools up there are about it when it comes to places I had a chance at. Second, my app was not put together well. It didn't have a theme story and wasn't well thought out. Third, and maybe most importantly, last time I applied I wasn't complete until October or November at my schools and my secondary turnover time was atrocious.

EDIT: I've fixed everything mentioned.

Then you should be fine without the additions.

 

[manofmen]

hey there @gyngyn would you say it's on the late side to be adding schools right now, even if we're assuming you can send out the application within a day or 2? i was actually in a similar boat. reapplicant and wondering if it'd be worth given the cost to be complete in mid-august. are a majority of applicants complete by this point?

 

[claduva94]

You wouldn't be behind at all for Drexel. They are still sending theirs out...

 

[manofmen]

You wouldn't be behind at all for Drexel. They are still sending theirs out...

yeah i'm waiting on drexel still!

 

[gyngyn]

hey there @gyngyn would you say it's on the late side to be adding schools right now, even if we're assuming you can send out the application within a day or 2? i was actually in a similar boat. reapplicant and wondering if it'd be worth given the cost to be complete in mid-august. are a majority of applicants complete by this point?

No. The real delay is the time to verification. If you add schools now they are added within a day and it's still mid August, not late September! Still, it's turning out to be a year of early applications. We've probably received about 2/3 of the total number I expect.

 

[blueharbor]

No. The real delay is the time to verification. If you add schools now they are added within a day and it's still mid August, not late September! Still, it's turning out to be a year of early applications. We've probably received about 2/3 of the total number I expect.

2/3 of primaries or 2/3 of secondaries?

 

[About28]

No. The real delay is the time to verification. If you add schools now they are added within a day and it's still mid August, not late September! Still, it's turning out to be a year of early applications. We've probably received about 2/3 of the total number I expect.

Does that mean that being complete in early august would be considered middle of the pack instead of a bit early this year? It'd be a shame to lose that advantage

 

[gyngyn]

Does that mean that being complete in early august would be considered middle of the pack instead of a bit early this year? It'd be a shame to lose that advantage

At least at my school it would appear so, but we're still deciding on interviews so it's fine


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[gyngyn]

2/3 of primaries or 2/3 of secondaries?

2/3's of the total (expected) number of secondaries have been sent. Most of these have also been filled out and returned to us. This is about where we would have expected to be in mid September.

 

[About28]

2/3's of the total (expected) number of secondaries have been sent. Most of these have also been filled out and returned to us. This is about where we would have expected to be in mid September.

Maybe @LizzyM could tell us if there's something similar going on where she is?

 

[FFH]

2/3's of the total (expected) number of secondaries have been sent. Most of these have also been filled out and returned to us. This is about where we would have expected to be in mid September.

Wow. Does that mean the applicants who submit now would have as much disadvantage as those who submitted mid september? I mean, does that mean by submitting late july to early Aug, I actually already lost a lot of advantage in schools that do rolling admission?

 

[LizzyM]

Maybe @LizzyM could tell us if there's something similar going on where she is?

I don't have access to that information for my school (applications received to date as a proportion of total applications expected)

 

[gyngyn]

Wow. Does that mean the applicants who submit now would have as much disadvantage as those who submitted mid september? I mean, does that mean by submitting late july to early Aug, I actually already lost a lot of advantage in schools that do rolling admission?

There are still plenty of interview slots. This could just mean that applicants filed earlier and the verification process has gone faster.

 

[unnumzaan]

There are still plenty of interview slots. This could just mean that applicants filed earlier and the verification process has gone faster.

The trend is definitely towards earlier and earlier submissions every year as pre-meds try to one up one another. And I think AMCAS really geared up for this year's verification times. It took exactly 3 weeks to verify from early July compared to 5 weeks last year and 4 weeks the couple of years prior.

Sure feels good twitch having the equivalent of a September completion. twitch

 

[FFH]

There are still plenty of interview slots. This could just mean that applicants filed earlier and the verification process has gone faster.

That's good. Although I still had to wait for a few schools who work in the order of submission to work through thousands of application that were submitted before mine. By that time...there won't be as many II let. Thank god I returned secondaries within a few days. Otherwise it would be way worse.