Updating My Application

[Mike2132]

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I am applying this cycle as a rising senior and I have already submitted my primary and some of my secondaries. My lab submitted a manuscript for publication this week after some revisions. I did not mention this at all in my primary or in the secondaries that I have already finished. This would be my first publication after 3 years of work in this lab so I would really like to include it. I am just unsure about the best way to add it. Should I send updates now or wait until it is accepted for publication? Also, should I include it on secondaries that I am submitting within these next two weeks or wait until it is accepted as well?

Thanks,

 

[DokterMom]

Include it on your new secondaries, but for the ones you've already submitted, there's really nothing new to tell them...
Save it for a update when you 'nudge' them for an interview.

 

[hoihaie]

wait until it's accepted because the process can take some time.

 

[Goro]

Submitted = not published

"Published" or "in press" is worth notifying.

Do you really think that the Dean of Admissions at @LizzyM's or @gyngyn's school is going to rush up to them and say "we've got to admit this kid; s/he's just submitted a paper!!" ???

I am applying this cycle as a rising senior and I have already submitted my primary and some of my secondaries. My lab submitted a manuscript for publication this week after some revisions. I did not mention this at all in my primary or in the secondaries that I have already finished. This would be my first publication after 3 years of work in this lab so I would really like to include it. I am just unsure about the best way to add it. Should I send updates now or wait until it is accepted for publication? Also, should I include it on secondaries that I am submitting within these next two weeks or wait until it is accepted as well?

Thanks,

 

[LizzyM]

Submitted = not published

"Published" or "in press" is worth notifying.

Do you really think that the Dean of Admissions at @LizzyM's or @gyngyn's school is going to rush up to them and say "we've got to admit this kid; s/he's just submitted a paper!!" ???

LOL. As if!

This is useful, as mentioned, once it has been accepted to use as an "update" to your file either before you are offered an interview or even afterward as a way of signalling that you are still interested.