What do Admissions Committees think?

[Jezzielin]

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I am about to send in my primary. I understand that they will see my grades and my personal statement. If I get a secondary is this just based off of my LORs and essay? I keep thinking if I can get a secondary from somewhere I can nail the rest. Anyone else think this way?

I just need to make it to mid-July!!! 😛

 

[Law2Doc]

I am about to send in my primary. I understand that they will see my grades and my personal statement. If I get a secondary is this just based off of my LORs and essay? I keep thinking if I can get a secondary from somewhere I can nail the rest. Anyone else think this way?

I just need to make it to mid-July!!! 😛

Well, an awful lot of schools will send everyone who lists them on AMCAS a secondary, so it doesn't really mean much. And you will generally get a secondary before the LORs are in...

 

[Prophecies]

I believe a secondary is mostly based on your primary app, grades, and MCAT...cuz that's all they really have...like the last poster said, LORs usually come after you receive a secondary. Good luck to you!

 

[BaylorGuy]

You cant send in your primary unless you are sending in your TMDSAS...AMCAS apps can be sent on June 1, not before

 

[bioteacher]

Yeah,

Secondaries don't mean much at all. I had over 35 secondaries and I only got one interview. If even half thought my application could contend, I think I would have gotten more than one interview.

If you get an interview, that means you are a contender. But then again, some schools interview three times (or more) as many people as they can provide acceptances.

You are going to have to sweat this out all year unless you have the grades and the MCAT scores.

 

[theunderdog]

Some schools just send out secondaries automatically. It's a way to collect more money.

Others are more selective, screen based on your MCAT, and then send out secondaries.

 

[BlueElmo]

dude this is more than 4 years old.

 

[nabeel76]

Somebody must of done some digging to get this one out of the archives lol.

Well since its alive again I am also curious about something. In my case my primary and LORs where recieved by med schools long before my mcat was out, so for the schools that screen and have sent me secondaries - did they read my LORs prior to sending them? That would assure me a little bit as to the quality of my LORs if so.

 

[DRIN]

Somebody must of done some digging to get this one out of the archives lol.

Well since its alive again I am also curious about something. In my case my primary and LORs where recieved by med schools long before my mcat was out, so for the schools that screen and have sent me secondaries - did they read my LORs prior to sending them? That would assure me a little bit as to the quality of my LORs if so.

I bet they do. But I am just a first-time applicant. With many schools now participating in electronic submission from AMCAS, schools are getting LORs as soon as you assign the letters to that school. So, I would say that schools that screen for secondaries probably read your LORs before making a decision on whether or not to send a secondary (if you've already assigned letters to that school through AMCAS)...I know I would take a look at them if I were the adcom.

 

[nabeel76]

I bet they do. But I am just a first-time applicant. With many schools now participating in electronic submission from AMCAS, schools are getting LORs as soon as you assign the letters to that school. So, I would say that schools that screen for secondaries probably read your LORs before making a decision on whether or not to send a secondary (if you've already assigned letters to that school through AMCAS)...I know I would take a look at them if I were the adcom.

I guess I would too. I hope they do cause although I am sure my individual letters are good, I didn't really have that much contact with my premedical commitee or the premedical advisor, so I have no clue about the quality of the commitee letter.

 

[greatnt249]

Some schools just send out secondaries automatically. It's a way to collect more money.

Others are more selective, screen based on your MCAT, and then send out secondaries.

Dude(tte)...seriously?🙄