When should you get a secondary

[thatoneguy3]

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assuming you turn everything in almost immediately, should you expect a secondary at the same time as everyone else or do they sometimes spread them out?

 

[Catalystik]

assuming you turn everything in almost immediately, should you expect a secondary at the same time as everyone else or do they sometimes spread them out?

If a school sends them out automatically without regard to whether you fulfill their predetermined criteria, you'd likely get them when others do. But if the school screens your application first, then the invitations will tend to be spread out. The first applications to arrive are not necessarily screened in order. And the initial release volume is fairly large, so it takes a while to sort them out.

 

[Goro]

Patience is a virtue, the need for instant gratification is not.


Schools stratify the apps as they come in and don't send out secondaries or IIs merely in chronological order.


Secondaries are often a tax on the hopelessly naïve, if not pathologically optimistic.

 

[Toutie]

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[911389]

both of your parents must be doctors for you to receive a secondary