studying abroad during application process

[mashya]

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The trip is 5 weeks long (june 21-july 27th).
How difficult would it be to balance this with secondaries assuming i have internet?
I intend on submitting the application as soon as it opens (june 1st) and from what i gather secondaries roll in sort of sporadically thereafter, and its important to send them back asap.
When do the majority of secondaries come in?

 

[varsityblue]

According to others, the majority of secondaries seem to come in around mid to late July. You could probably conduct your school research before you receive the secondaries by coming up with specific "why X med school" reasons and generic "why med school"-type prompts to save interview prep and writing time.

 

[alexrgross]

According to others, the majority of secondaries seem to come in around mid to late July.

If that late

 

[kpcrew]

It seems like a lot of questions tend to be recycled from year to year and prompts from different schools can overlap. There's always the option of thinking about how you would answer questions like "why our school" "what qualities do you possess that will make you a good fit for medicine" or "what aspects of medicine intrigue you" that tend to appear in secondaries.

 

[NickNaylor]

Assuming you have internet access I don't think this would be a problem at all. You could even get the prompts before you leave and pre-write a lot of the essays if you're diligent about it. You could even wait until after you get back if you're really on top of things since you're not going to be gone late into the cycle.

You really run into problems only when interviews start coming up, but for you that won't be an issue.

 

[penguinism]

The trip is 5 weeks long (june 21-july 27th).
How difficult would it be to balance this with secondaries assuming i have internet?
I intend on submitting the application as soon as it opens (june 1st) and from what i gather secondaries roll in sort of sporadically thereafter, and its important to send them back asap.
When do the majority of secondaries come in?

I was abroad for ~2 months during the beginning of the application season. It sucked writing secondaries while everyone else was enjoying themselves every night, but it was a sacrifice that I made (and certainly not an impossible one, provided that you're applying to a reasonable number of schools).

 

[kpcrew]

then again you can just go for schools that don't have secondaries that involve a short written piece