Category Archives: Secondary Applications
Secondary applications arrive soon after the primary application is transmitted to the medical schools. It is important to return secondary applications quickly; an application is not considered complete until the secondary has been received. The suggested time window for returning a … Continue reading
July is an incredibly busy month in the medical school application process. This is the time when secondary applications are in full swing. Having read thousands of secondary application essays over my career, which has spanned almost 30 years, I have … Continue reading
As described in another blog post, secondary applications are an enormously important component of the medical school application process. Secondaries are designed to suit the needs of individual medical schools. As such, medical schools pay as much attention to the secondary applications … Continue reading
In secondary (or “supplemental”) applications, each medical school poses several prompts, tailored to provide specific information for that school. These prompts will be different for each medical school, although similarities do exist from one school to another; certain themes are … Continue reading
As most medical school applicants know, the “primary” application, processed by the American Medical College Application Service (AMCAS), is the uniform application that allopathic medical schools receive. The American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine Application Service (AACOMAS) processes applications … Continue reading
The Texas Medical and Dental Schools Application System (TMDSAS) has a different secondary application process than AMCAS. In the American Medical College Application Service all the participating medical schools require a secondary application. In Texas, however, it’s different. Seven of the participating … Continue reading
The AMCAS, AACOMAS, and TMDSAS are considered the “primary” applications in the medical school application process. Each of these is a centralized processing service for allopathic, osteopathic, and the Texas public medical schools, respectively. Applicants submit their information to these … Continue reading