secondary turn around time?

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I received my verified AMCAS on Monday the 14 of July. As might be expected, I got a flood of secondaries in the next few days. The only problem is that I work seven days per week in my lab (9am-6pm) and don't have very much time to write essays.</p>

<p>So far I've only gotten six secondaries out, writing four essays to do so. I know have thirteen more core essays (and 23 permutations of them) left to write to finish off the rest of the secondaries. I've heard that you should shoot for a turnaround time of two weeks for your secondaries. Is this something I should absolutely stick to? Would three weeks be alright? Basically my choices are to either pull a week of consecutive all nighters to get everything out by the two week deadline or to stretch it out to three weeks.</p>

<p>Thanks for the input!</p>

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<p>Two weeks is mainly a guideline so that you don't get too far behind. Very few med schools have actual 2-week deadlines (Northwestern being the exception). 3 weeks is fine.</p>

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<p>take a day off? finish them up so that they won't be hanging over your head</p>

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<p>I'm running controlled feeding trials right now, so I can't take any time off otherwise they don't get fed and the measurements don't get taken. The only other grad student in the lab is running her own study, so we're both booked.</p>