deeman101 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Wow! Case's secondaries are pretty intimidating. And only 2 weeks to complete!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicaldna Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 What do you guys think about Georgetown secondary? 5000 characters? I am barely making 2800. And I think we should check Premed 101 more often. I check it at least once every hour. I need some Canadian company during my US application cycle! Almost everyone on SDN is American (3% Canadians according to their stats). Their problems are quite minute....a low mcat there is sub 30. Wish that was true for us...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmitch8 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 What do you guys think about Georgetown secondary? 5000 characters? I am barely making 2800. And I think we should check Premed 101 more often. I check it at least once every hour. I need some Canadian company during my US application cycle! Almost everyone on SDN is American (3% Canadians according to their stats). Their problems are quite minute....a low mcat there is sub 30. Wish that was true for us...... 5000 characters IS alot. I still haven't tackled that secondary. I thought that Georgetown was somewhat defined these days by its religious affiliation and its "Catholic viewpoints". I wonder how present that is in their medschool. Anyone interview there last year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman101 Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Crap! I just realized Hopkins needs an LOR from a non-science faculty member too!! OMG! Theres only 1 non-science faculty member that knows me well enough. I fired off an email at her but she barely responds to her emails! Dammit. Should I just forgo Hopkins for this? Or should I try and submit w/o that requirement fulfilled? I tried to call Hopkins to find out but they keep bouncing me to the automated message system, so now I'm waiting for an email reply from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hackintosh Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 What do you guys think about Georgetown secondary? 5000 characters? I am barely making 2800. And I think we should check Premed 101 more often. I check it at least once every hour. I need some Canadian company during my US application cycle! Almost everyone on SDN is American (3% Canadians according to their stats). Their problems are quite minute....a low mcat there is sub 30. Wish that was true for us...... 5000 is the maximum. You don't need 5000 characters. Mine was only 1800. Just make your point and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illuminis Posted July 23, 2009 Report Share Posted July 23, 2009 Are any of these secondaries sent out by snail mail? I won't be home for a while, so I'll mostly be working with the email ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicaldna Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 5000 is the maximum. You don't need 5000 characters. Mine was only 1800. Just make your point and move on. Yes that's what I was thinking. No point filling up space just for its sake... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicaldna Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Are any of these secondaries sent out by snail mail? I won't be home for a while, so I'll mostly be working with the email ones. I know GWU is one and maybe Uof Connecticut (they ask to attach it in email but the form requires a signature so I am guessing it needs to be mailed in) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmitch8 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Are any of these secondaries sent out by snail mail? I won't be home for a while, so I'll mostly be working with the email ones. Rosalind Franklin, GWU, Wayne State, Wake Forest, UConn, SUNY Upstate all have components to be sent in by snail mail Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c17h Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Rosalind Franklin, GWU, Wayne State, Wake Forest, UConn, SUNY Upstate all have components to be sent in by snail mail For Columbia, you submit your secondary online, but have to submit a photo via mail. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman101 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Rosalind Franklin, GWU, Wayne State, Wake Forest, UConn, SUNY Upstate all have components to be sent in by snail mail Add JHMI to the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deeman101 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 For NYU secondaries, does credits = semester hours? Or do I put in 1.00 or 0.50 credits, like I did for AMCAS? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hackintosh Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 Rosalind Franklin, GWU, Wayne State, Wake Forest, UConn, SUNY Upstate all have components to be sent in by snail mail SUNY Upstate accepts credit card payments. So you don't have to send in your payment if you've got one. I don't think they require anything else that needs to be mailed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c17h Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 For NYU secondaries, does credits = semester hours? Or do I put in 1.00 or 0.50 credits, like I did for AMCAS? I never really thought about this, but I put the 3.0 and 6.0 credits like AMCAS...it is the AMCAS application that the ADCOMs are going to be looking at after all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rmitch8 Posted July 24, 2009 Report Share Posted July 24, 2009 For the UConn secondary... Does anyone know if the TOTAL secondary submission limit is 2 pages... or if EACH essay response limit is 2 pages? 2 pages X 4 essays seems pretty ridiculous, but the wording is ambiguous and you never know.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sohini10 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 Ii read on the michigan state website that the application is nt negatively affected by the timing,does tht mean i wont have any advantage doing secondaries now vs later? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED527 Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 For the UConn secondary... Does anyone know if the TOTAL secondary submission limit is 2 pages... or if EACH essay response limit is 2 pages? 2 pages X 4 essays seems pretty ridiculous, but the wording is ambiguous and you never know.. I believe it's 2 pages for all 4 essays. For example, you can choose to spend more space to answer one question compared to others as long as the total does not exceed 2 pages. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foregoneconclusion Posted July 25, 2009 Report Share Posted July 25, 2009 For NYU secondaries, does credits = semester hours? Or do I put in 1.00 or 0.50 credits, like I did for AMCAS? AMCAS will convert the credits into their system on your verified primary. Wait until then to fill this part out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_015 Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Is anybody applying to UMinn Duluth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rach Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Is anybody applying to UMinn Duluth? I believe you have to be a US citizen in order to apply to that campus.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UserName Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 So if the essays are asking for something not necessarily medically related.. like describing a hardship or an experience that you enjoyed.. and I described something not medical but at the end managed to tie it to how it could be relevant to my future as a doctor.. would the adcoms find it annoying? as if I'm forcing these conclusions into these stories? for example.. I worked with a man for a long period of time who was very different from myself in many perspectives.. religion, culture, views, age.. etc.. but we managed to become very good friends. the experience taught me to be receptive to people of all backgrounds and made me much more open minded.. would it seem out of context to say that this experience can benefit me as a doctor in that it can prepare me to work with all people etc ? what do you guys think? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ED527 Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 @Username: Not at all. If you genuinely believe that is what the experience taught you, it will show in the secondary and during the interview. The experience you described, it helped you grow as a person, made you cognizant of the fact that not everyone has the same perspectives as you and that they might see situations differently than you do and to ensure that you take these varying cultural, religious, personal backgrounds into consideration when treating a patient. I don't believe that adcoms are looking for medically related experience in every secondary response (Although, this is not to understate the importance of clinical experience). In fact, the questions are left open-ended on purpose so as to allow the applicant to use whatever experience he/she wants to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UserName Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Thanks ED527! I feel the same way about it.. It definitely taught me something about myself as well as about others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hopefullywaiting Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 Quick Question: I have received the secondaries from George Washington and promised the link to the secondary from Boston this week. My transcripts have not even been verified by AMCAS yet. Do these Universities send secondaries to everyone or do they do it based on MCAT score? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UserName Posted July 26, 2009 Report Share Posted July 26, 2009 I'm pretty sure they send it to everyone.. you can submit GW but boston won't let you submit until you are verified. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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