Should I submit more secondaries?

[nabilesmail]

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Hey guys- I have a 3.74 34 MCAT + the EC's in my MDAPP- I applied late (submitted secondaries from 9/15- 10/15 (mostly done late september/early october), I still have a few secondaries to go, but not sure if I am wasting my time (because its late+ i may have lower stats + I'm really tired of secondaries and am in school).

So far I have completed 30 secondaries and have been rejected from 3 schools- Included is a list + schools that I applied to but have not done the secondary for

So far I applied to:

Albany Medical College

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Baylor College of Medicine

Boston University School of Medicine -Pre-hold for letterhead (will fix)


Columbia University College of P & S - didn't turn in sec yet


David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA - haven't received sec yet


Drexel University College of Medicine




Emory University School of Medicine

Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth - rejected


Harvard Medical School

Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine

Jefferson Medical Coll. of Thomas Jefferson Univ.

Keck Sch. of Med.University of Southern California

Mayo Medical School - rejected


Medical College of Wisconsin

New York Medical College

New York University

Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicin - haven't done sec


Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

SUNY at Buffalo Medical School -haven't received sec


Saint Louis University School of Medicine

Stanford University School of Medicine

Tufts University School of Medicine




University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix -haven't done sec





University of California San Diego

University of California San Francisco

University of California, Davis School of Medicine

University of California, Irvine- College/Medicine

University of California-Riverside School of Medicine - haven't received sec


University of Michigan Medical School

University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

University of Rochester School of Medicine and Den - rejected


University of Virginia School of Medicine - haven't done sec


Vanderbilt University School of Medicine - haven't received sec


Wake Forest School of Medicine of Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center - haven't received sec


Washington University School of Medicine

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

Yale University School of Medicine

 

[1289]

how long ago did you submit all of these?

 

[nabilesmail]

I'd say 20-25 were submitted between 9/20- 10/7 a couple were submitted before and 3-4 were submitted after

 

[TheShaker]

If you were to do it, I'd go for Tufts and Albany. Albany is a lower stat school, has an easy secondary, and they JUST started handing out interview invites. The problem is that it will likely take you a few weeks to be marked complete.

Tufts, to the best of my knowledge, has been slow in giving out II's, has an easy secondary, and marks you complete the instant you submit. It is somewhat of a high stat school though but I think you have a chance with your numbers.

You should try out U Cincinnati too because it is low stat, marks you complete very quickly, and IT ONLY COSTS $25!!!!!

Don't do U Rochester, they'll just reject you and break your heart like they do to seemingly everybody. 🙁

 

[nabilesmail]

If you were to do it, I'd go for Tufts and Albany. Albany is a lower stat school, has an easy secondary, and they JUST started handing out interview invites. The problem is that it will likely take you a few weeks to be marked complete.

Tufts, to the best of my knowledge, is very early in their interview game, has an easy secondary, and marks you complete the instant you submit. It is somewhat of a high stat school though but I think you have a chance with your numbers.

You should try out U Cincinnati too because it is low stat, marks you complete very quickly, and IT ONLY COSTS $25!!!!!

Don't do U Rochester, they'll just reject you and break your heart like they do to seemingly everybody. 🙁

Woops, Those are the schools I have ALREADY applied and COMPLETED secondaries to, unless I wrote that I haven't done the secondary. There are about 5-6 schools there in which I have not done the secondary yet (I wrote by each school) and don't know if it is wasting my time to do so now

 

[TheShaker]

Woops, Those are the schools I have ALREADY applied and COMPLETED secondaries to, unless I wrote that I haven't done the secondary. There are about 5-6 schools there in which I have not done the secondary yet (I wrote by each school) and don't know if it is wasting my time to do so now

My bad, that explains a lot. I'd say most of those schools that you haven't submitted to are kind of a stretch because they are either reaches or IS heavy so I don't think it'll help your overall chances too much.

 

[red doctober]

Give priority to the schools that match your GPA/MCAT. You have a lot of reaches on your list, and it probably would not be wise to put off the match schools' secondaries to do the reach ones.

 

[nabilesmail]

Well pretty much the only 2 schools left are
University of Virginia School of Medicine and Univeristy of Arizona Phoenix, as NU and Columbia are too high.

I'm not counting the other schools in which I haven't received the secondaries yet- but will do them if they come

 

[red doctober]

AZ-Phoenix may be worth doing. Unfortunately UVA is very difficult to get into as an OOS. They are pretty IS selective, and I think their avg MCAT still is like 35.

 

[nabilesmail]

Alrighty, so I won't do NU/UVA, I think I still may do columbia as they are non-rolling and cause the secondary isn't too hard.

I'll try and do arizona sometime next week after my exam, any other easy secondaries that would be worth doing (if I apply to the school)

 

[Planes2Doc]

If you have the time and money, then go for it. Just don't half-ass any of the essays. If you feel like you need to, narrow your choices down to what was mentioned above.

 

[earf]

If you have the time and money, then go for it. Just don't half-ass any of the essays. If you feel like you need to, narrow your choices down to what was mentioned above.

Agreed. If you think you have a lot, I applied to 42 schools. I think what's more important for you right soon might be update letters though (at 1.5 months after applying).

 

[red doctober]

^^Nice avatar