<p>My daughter is considering doing research at a university in Africa during the summer after junior year for 8-10 weeks. She would return to the US by late August. She would have access to internet while in Africa, but mail service would be poor.</p>
<p>Can most secondary apps be sent entirely by internet, or is physical mailing required? My daughter would plan to submit her primary app on the first possible day. She would also pre-write some secondary app essays based on the previous years prompts.</p>
<p>Just going through the process now, but from what I’ve seen everything is electronic, no hard copies. I think the earliest interviews started was in about mid/late-Aug, but she could always request a later date.</p>
<p>I think Wash U or maybe Hopkins required a hard copy of something signed but I bet if you explain the situation you could find a way around it since it wasn’t something that was used to evaluate me but some formality regarding that I had no disciplinary action against me or something like that.</p>
<p>Rush Medical College allows electronic submission of secondaries, but requires a mailed paper signature page with a paper photo for your application to be considered complete. PITA.</p>
<p>Thanks so much for those answers. Does anyone know if any physical mailing is needed for the secondaries for Harvard, Yale, Penn, Duke, Baylor, Vanderbilt, UCLA, UCSD, Stanford, Univ. of Chicago?</p>