What order to attack secondaries?

[FishermanDon99]

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I'm wondering how to go about doing my secondaries. Should I do reaches and realistic schools first then safetys last? Or should I do realistic and safety schools first then save the reaches to see if I even get past screening? Interested in hearing tactics.

 

[biochemxo]

I'm wondering how to go about doing my secondaries. Should I do reaches and realistic schools first then safetys last? Or should I do realistic and safety schools first then save the reaches to see if I even get past screening? Interested in hearing tactics.

Honestly I just completed the secondaries in the order of which schools I was most interested in. It was easier completing those secondaries bc I was more excited about those schools and my writing just flowed.

 

[freedoctor17]

I just did them as they came but I do feel like my writing peaked at the last third of schools but that might also be because of the prompts they had.

 

[scribbles&rambles]

I had some to pre-write before I got verified, so I pre-wrote a few of my reaches (the ones I knew didn't screen). Once I got verified, I mostly did them as I came, though if I got a batch of secondaries within a certain span of time (2-3 days typically), I would prioritize the schools I loved the most first.

I do feel that my organization/writing/specificity improved near the end because I had tweaked some of the common essays and thought about them so many times that I was able to bring in other insights.