submtting secondary early vs. polishing and submitting late

[Homoochan]

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Hm.. do you guys just sumbit secondary with only few revisions or polish it week after week and then submit it..

I've been working on them quite a while now to polish them but thinking I should just submit them asap

 

[dw2158]

happy medium?

i'm not giving mine nearly the amount of tweaking i gave my PS, but i'm still editing them a bit. my pattern has been: force myself to write it in one sitting, walk away for a day or two, edit, submit (if i feel good about it) or give it another day or two and one more edit. granted, i haven't *actually* submitted so many, but i have a bunch prepped and ready. (i'm having photo issues.)

 

[RaginRajon]

Last year, I went for one extreme (submitted every secondary within 2 days) and got rejected across the board. The whole time that I was waiting for interviews/decisions, I sat there thinking "damn... I could have done a better job on my essays". This time I am going for the other extreme and am giving my secondary essays an obsessive amount of attention. Will it pay off? Who knows, but that is my strat.

 

[LaCasta]

As others have mentioned, at this point, it is possible that many schools are still trying to finalize this year's class, so I don't think there is any point in submitting within 1 or 2 days if you could spend an extra couple days to polish it up.

 

[SteinUmStein]

I'm at the point where I'm still waiting for a pokey LOR writer to get his letter sent in (he knew about it in April...), so I'm just getting everything ready to send in when the letter's done. Even if I submit the secondaries now, I won't be complete, and they don't look at your application until you are complete, right?

 

[Homoochan]

I have polished my Columbia essays from the day I received it on June 25.. I think submitting early is better although the quality might not be as good as the one that's polished as PS