Since everybody encourages to submit med sschool apps early...

Pre-Med & Medical School Pre-Med Topics
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<p>I have three questions:</p>

<p>1) How long do you get to fully answer the questions? Days? Weeks? Months?
2) If you're submitting early, wouldn't that hurt the quality of the writing, since there is less time possible for devotion to the essays?
3) Do med schools emphasize how you write the essays (i.e. syntax, grammar stricken, style, etc) as much as what you write the essays on? Substance over style? or substance=style?</p>

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<p>If you read the timeless “Timing Alert” post, you could better understand what it means by “submitting med school apps early”:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/282027-timing-alert-2.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/pre-med-topics/282027-timing-alert-2.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Some of contributors on the above thread have already or have almost graduated from the medical school by now!</p>

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<p>submitting early shouldnt hurt the quality of the essay because theoretically you should start writing it before the application cycle starts. that timing post by bdm is great. if your school does a committee evaluation, it’ll probably follow a similar timeline as that post. my committee letter has already been uploaded and sent to amcas and tmdsas (I think my school is really early compared to other schools though)</p>

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<p>For the secondaries, go now to Student doctor network dot com, you can find the secondary prompts for each school if not this years, then last years, and they seem to mainly remain the same. This allows you to compile a list of questions and answers making for more rapid turnaround.</p>

<p>My DD did not do this, despite knowing about it, her senior year was full, she got the TX app in and then the AMCAS one by mid-June. After that she just reacted to the secondaries as she got them, but you very quickly realise that whether they want 50 words or 500 words, the answer will be the same, you just adapt to the space given.</p>

<p>Aim for 2-3 days whenever possible, or at least for your top pick schools, but 2 weeks at the outside for turning around secondaries.</p>